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...present in American colleges in general, but our present concern is with Dartmouth life! Given common convictions against the cheap, the low, the unintelligent and the evil, the greater the variety of types and of attributes among Dartmouth men, the stronger the College will be. The evidence of the fault may be taken from less consequential things as well as from more. The presence of an additional button on the coat beyond that pictured in current tailor's advertisements, a variation in the height of the belted waist-line, a slight inaccurary in sighting the line of the part...
...Tumulty's book has one fault which will immediately condemn it for a majority of readers; his own petty personality intrudes in every sentence. The book might better be termed an autobiography of the president's secretary, for the greater man is distinctly secondary. It is scarcely believable that the writer deliberately set out to belittle Mr. Wilson to his own advantage; yet the impression which one first receives from the book is of a weakling acting as the tool of his secretary's superior intelligence, an impression far removed, by the way, from that given by Boswell...
There exists in the mind of the public a great deal of confusion about the official objects which the Washington Conference on the Limitation of Armament is called to accomplish and about the proper measure of its success or failure. This confusion is not entirely the public's fault. It is born of an underlying infirmity of purpose in the plans of the administration. The President during the campaign incurred a clear obligation to move in the direction of peace through international agreement, and for that purpose he was bound to summon a conference of the Allied and Associated Powers...
...aversion to voting is otherwise explained. In a word, I believe that the system of election is grievourly at fault, in that it is not adapted to conditions at Harvard. For more than forty percent of Harvard undergraduates are not personally acquainted with those of their class-mates who become candidates for office. "Harvard indifference" and "Harvard snobbishness" have prevented them from acquiring any intimate knowledge upon which to base their choice of officers; and under these conditions it would be handle honorable for them to select any of the names mentioned in the ballot. Their choice would have...
Your editorial finds fault with the airshaft, but fails to advance any reason why there should be no airshaft. Obviously an airshaft is a vital necessity, and what in the face of rain and snow, is less strange than that it should be covered? "Drinking fountains in the slop sinks" is a nasty phrase. yet only a phrase, since, after an inspection, it is noted that, like other drinking fountains, these are placed above sanitary basins to receive the superfluous water. "Mention might be made of the toilets, the lighting, and ventilation in general", but you do not make...