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...While pitching, Gomez chews gum. He throws with an easy overhand motion, balancing the backswing of his left hand with the upswing of a size-13 cleated shoe. The dignity and competence of his demeanor contrast strangely with the stories of his eccentricities. These are partly true, partly the framework of legend invented to support another one of baseball's superstitions, that all left-handed pitchers are a trifle crazy...
Very few people will dispute these generalities but a scheme must be evolved which the young college graduate can use as the framework of his purpose. There are two things which should be guarded against. Above all he must not go forth into the much-described battle of life filled with the type of idealism which so many speakers are stressing this week. Life will be a bitter disappointment if he does. The college graduates who started the War, the college graduates who brought about the depression, the college graduates who have spent their lives making fortunes unjustly...
...Constitution, for all the forensics of Senator Borah, is not the ultimate guardian of liberty; this must rest in the people themselves, and attempts to confine twentieth century policies within the unyielding framework of the Constitution as interpreted by the Borahs can prove but restrictive, not liberating. The only real question is, whether the cold facts of the situation demand permissive powers to be granted to the Executive, and if they do, whether Congress then has the makings of a real watchdog of liberty and not simply those of a canine with a penchant for baying at the moon. WOTAN...
President and Fellows see fit to bestow. No other distinctions need separate him from the mass of Harvard, from those training for professions, working their way through college, or specializing in extra-curricular activities, who would still receive a sound schooling under the aegis of concentration and distribution. A framework of this sort, with different curricular requirements, and flexible enough to take care of those who rise or fall from one category to the other, may well be necessary to prevent the superman from wilting in this huge university...
Nevertheless, as things stand today, the regrettable condition is that there is no present promise of a non-partisan organization or of a third party. In this condition, those who oppose what is being done are forced to look to the Republican Party as the framework through which to express themselves. The great question therefore is whether the Republican Party will live up to an obligation which is wider than the party...