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Apparently Coach Knox has little sympathy with the younger generation and its twentieth century mode of life. Terming them a "spindle-legged and hollow-chested" lot, he continues in his denunciation of the present "jazzworn" youth of America...
...Massachusetts, a policeman of a city is a public officer holding his office as a trust from the State, and not as a matter of contract between himself and the city. Police appointments are referred to cities and towns by the legislature as a convenient mode of exercising a function of government...
This tone of sophistication now apparently so much the mode is better carried out in the editorials, especially the first, which explains the designation of the Freshman number as primarily mercenary: In "Kismet and Advice" too there is something genial in the bantering tone, something genuine, however unsound, in the philosophy. After all it is the function of the Advocate to express undergraduate ideas rather than to rival professional magazines. That is excuse enough for the very patronizing book review. It doesn't excuse, however, such unintelligible verse as the Sonnet. One always hesitates to confess missing the point...
...extraordinary that such a traditionally conservative institution as a bank should choose such a mode of expression; and extraordinary that it should denounce such an established institution as the Congress of the U. S. Already one can hear radicals ejaculating : "We are accused of attacking our institutions 'but here is Wall Street,* the conservative banking interests, doing the same thing with impunity!" As a matter of fact, the radicals can have less honest objection to such a mode of procedure than if the Harriman National Bank spent its money in devious ways to buy influence at Washington or to subsidize...
National Defense. "I am in favor of National defense, not merely as an abstract state of mind, but as a concrete mode of action. I favor not merely talking about it but doing something about...