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News editors are very weary of being wary. Theirs is an eternal vigilance. To them, everyday is April 1. Only those born in Missouri survive to a ripe old age. Suspicion must become their second nature. The public expects them to be omniscient, omni-accurate. Yet the public conceals facts from them, distorts facts to them, lies to them outright, plays jokes upon them. The good citizen with a "cause" brings propaganda to their desks. Public men lie to the press as an aid to their digestion. Reporters, the emissaries hired by editors to keep them accurately informed, put upon...
...that Mr. Flavin has had an artistic success and a flat failure, he is ripe to do something rather fine and durable...
...probability of France's returning to a gold standard currency, he confessed that it was impossible for the country to remain indifferent to the predominant tendency among other nations in that direction; but, said he, "many other things come first," and concluded that the time was not yet ripe for its consideration...
...continuity of history. Each great man is a product of his environment, and if he represents the synthesis of a movement, is as unrevealing if studied by himself as the answer with-out the mathematical problem. It takes a long series of incidents to make the time ripe for a great man, and since he must be studied in the light of the long movement which brought him forth, the study of great men becomes after all the old chronological method so much despise by Mr. Erskine...
...then, the opinion is general that the tutorial system has created "a larger intellectual interest among undergraduates", the time is ripe for further advances, for progress which has waited only upon the establishment of that fact. Since the new system and that alone, for courses have changed but little, is responsible for this highly desirable stimulation of undergraduate study, the time has come for more serious efforts to broaden its scope. The first of these ought to be directed toward a radical reduction in course requirements...