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...Party as a parcel of radicals if the measure failed either in Parliament or later. As always the wily George threatened and yielded adroitly. He swore that he would resign from the party and go "out into the wilderness." He cajoled his old follower, Sir Alfred Mond, a bitter foe of land nationalization. At length he yielded, just soon enough to secure notable concessions as a reward for not carrying out his threat to split the party...
...Greet the foe...
...Harvard indifference to athletics--it belongs strictly to Harvard, as it never appears in other colleges--we have often discussed, because it is one of our most dangerous opponents in intercollegiate contests. We wish again to warn the members of the University against this insidious foe, which this year is on a greater increases than never before. The Yale News states that Harvard is straining every nerve for victory in the coming season. This is true so far as it concerns the men who are training for the 'Varsity, but it is not true of those outside of them...
...with an attack upon the deum machinae of the university. In his opinion this type of spirit is ordained by its very being to wander through life, entering no fixed abode, enjoying perhaps the feel of a book, the form of a thought, the swing of a measure. A foe of the heaviness in living, it strolls on, devoted to its dreams, while progress eludes it as it eludes progress...
Never has Congress, and never will Congress, legalize Francis Scott Key's ballad, which voices "bombs bursting in air," "blood," "the terror of flight and the gloom of the grave," "foul footsteps' pollution," and refers to our Anglo-Saxon brother, Britain, as "the foe's haughty host...