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...cockney is not alone in tracing its antecedents to ancient royalty. If England is going to resort to etymology to prove even her slang good English, common Americans are equally justified in defending themselves. Clerk is supposed to rhyme with lark in the best English, yet no less a writer than Chaucer coupled it with world. Plebian "ain't" appears in Thackery, apparently quite good form. While if the beaux and macarouss of Pope's day were to appear today and tald as they did in the drawing rooms of London, and ordinary American might well imagine they were telling...
...modern doctor who a message will be heard and sustained outside academic walls. He may, if he looks too far ahead, suffer the martyr's fate. But, if he chooses the wiser method of teaching those things the multitude can hear, he may sustain himself without resort to the tender mercies of trustees, presidents; and bursars. His earnings may, indeed, be sufficient to lift him above the feelings of indigence so destructive to free thinking. He may avoid commencement oration, Phi Beta Kappa addresses, the conferring of honorary degrees faculty meetings, examinations, and pestiferous students. No Carnegie pension lulls...
...them. His statements to a correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian" are just the opposite. "If the army could save the nation from the calamities bound to follow the acceptance of the treaty I think it justifiable for them to use their strength to that end." Indeed as a last resort "the army may prevent elections which are only the blinds of an alien government." Perhaps the former "president" of the republic has forgotten the "Rump Parliament" and Cromwell the friend of the Irish...
...avowed "conservative" usually commands an audience of himself and row upon row of empty chairs. As a result, people become so afraid of being thought conservative in any way, that they lean backward in an effort to stand straight as out-and-out liberals. In consequence, they resort to every extreme to show themselves in full sympathy with the latest popular movement in every field. Under these circumstances, liberalism tends to become radicalism, reflected in every "latest fad,"--in post-impressionistic renderings of the "Nude Falling Downstairs" or enamelled legs to supplant hosiery. Convention, tradition, anything intellectually respectable or time...
...Nations, and equality with other dominions. Then, too, it would seem, from the evidence available, that after all it is the Moslem, and not the Hindu, who is the real evil genius of the whole difficulty. Perhaps the only way out of this curious tangle lies in a temporary resort to force, together with a defiance of Mohammedan threats. At all events, this is almost certain to be the policy if a conservative takes Montagu's place in the British Cabinet...