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Behind the recurring cry against the college press for its paucity of sound opinion on college subjects there is a false assumption which weakens the claim. If educators, magazine writers and college editors themselves lament the lack of judgment displayed by undergraduate journals in a crisis, they are assuming that the opinion of student editors has a definite value. It is a rare thing for the opinion of a student editor to be worth more than that of any undergraduate, and this latter kind of opinion is worth very little...
...Straight Bust: A business man, through bad commercial judgment or bad markets, overstrains his credit, owes more than he can pay, gives up all assets to the Court, conscientiously assists in settling his debts...
...moved that the Shipping Board be instructed to halt the sale until the Senate's Commerce Committee could investigate. The Senate, always pro-government-ownership-operation on shipping, gravely adopted the McKellar resolution. Washington's Jones, the Senate's chief shipping expert, sighed profoundly. "In my judgment," he said, "the United States will never be offered so much for the ships again...
...considered by some, as President Little in the case of the stipulated donation to the University of Michigan, unnecessarily to hamper the authorities in attaining the general objective with the best possible results. It is true that a donor's foresight is never quite equal to contemporary professional judgment in achieving a desired project, and may sometimes unduly limit such an achievement. Whatever may be the result of this definitely stipulated gift to Yale, this educational experiment is one that will be watched with great interest...
...martyrdom of the sainted Louis" was a stock expression which in one form or another appears in the works of all ardent Catholic writers. Today it appears that devoted Catholics in France still look upon him as a saint. Whether or not the Pope sees fit to stamp this judgment with the seal of official approval can do little to alter the saintly character Louis XVI has acquired in the hearts of many of his countrymen...