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...appeared that the aged (he is 78) Field Marshal had remained indurately opposed to accepting nomination until a loud knock sounded on the door of No. 15 Wedekindstrasse, Hanover, and Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz appeared to undermine Hindenburg's resistance. It was subsequently given out on the slenderest authority that the ex-Kaiser at Doorn had intervened to command the old man to stand for election ; and that the latter, faithful and true to the former Emperor and King, had immediately made Tirpitz's heart glad by accepting the nomination...
...happen to be a more or less humble employe oi the Company referred to in that article and cannot but resent the gratuitous (?) "knock" which you have given it. The only charitable explanation I can think of for your publishing it is that you have fallen a victim to the same malicious propaganda that has been noticed in other directions. At any rate, if the contents of your weekly are to be judged by the material contained in the article referred to, my confidence in anything that TIME may publish has been shattered...
...empty pride, false hopes, and insignificant rewards, claims the undergraduate's attention while his books remain closed on his desk. So restless do men become in their covetousness for extra-curriculum fame, that they cannot sit down and concentrate, except, perhaps, the night before an examination, when they will "knock out"" their "gentleman's C." But it is not a "gentleman's C:" it is a "loafer's C." a "small-minded man's C," a " 'great' man's C." Either studies, or fame in undergraduate activities, must be sacrificed, and according to the accepted opinion, extra-curriculum distinction...
College ossifies men," declared Clarence S. Darrow yesterday, explaining his ideas on education and colleges. "It makes their blood, turn to water and their high ambition to petty desire. Such great numbers as now knock at the college gates make any college liable to fall in its purpose. And college in its anomalous situation as a meeting ground for Racine and swinehusbandry is beyond its depth...
...column: never will it be governed by calendar or clock. Without premeditation and sans arriere pensee, in a simple effusion from the heart. The Crime will come, like a Quaker's meeting, whenever the spirit moves. On the whole it is expected that the spirit will vibrate, or knock, or whatever it is spirits do, about once a week...