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...sketch of our Canadian Premier, not to mention the splendid summary of matters political here under COMMONWEALTH heading; and while I am personally a supporter and admirer of the leader of the other great political party, the Rt Hon. Arthur Meighen, I would be glad to receive a press proof of the cut of MacKenzie King- following the example of the Fritz Kreisler "fan" from East Pittsburgh...
CHAS. F. ADAMS. ; A press proof of Premier MacKenzie -King was promptly mailed to Subscriber Adams...
...From the very inception of this work, running hand in hand with the conception of this Southern memorial, has been the part all America has played, which is the indestructible proof of the unity of our country. My duty as a citizen of this Nation, wholly apart from the creator of this work, makes it impossible for me even to consider the abandonment of so splendid a thing. Opposition means but one thing- I must continue and fight...
Like all good facts, statistical or otherwise, it may be bent to prove almost anything and one may find in it, as in the Bible, whatever one looks for. The bad boy from Baltimore, Mr. Mencken, will no doubt declare it proof incontrovertible of hopeless literary flabbiness, and the flag-waving Mr. Sherman will somehow find in it another splendid victory for "the American spirit". But who can imagine Messrs. Sherman and Mencken on any common ground...
...apply any other test or qualification than that of scholarship? If they are not, what is their particular merit, or what their usefulness to a center of scholarship? The issue was discussed here last year; and the deservedly firm opposition to any such proposal is one very satisfactory proof that the spirit of liberalism can still find a place in Cambridge, if not in New Haven...