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...with the "wallflowers" at our k. k. class affairs? Answer: Said "wallflowers" may be pleasant enough so that the men would be glad to enjoy one dance with them, but there is a danger of having to spend the entire rest of the afternoon with them, simply for the sake of politeness in case no other man comes up to receive one. Women have the vote--why can't a man leave one on the dance floor, especially at mixed affairs such as we have in the afternoons, regardless of whether there is another man in the of ling...
...practice of the law not infrequently opens business opportunities into which men may stop and find their legal training of invaluable assistance to them, few men who do not intend to make their livelihood at the bar can afford to spend three years at law school for the sake of the additional polish it may give to their general education. Nor is it advisable for any man to take up the study of the law in this dilettante spirit...
There was a time when a game was played entirely for the game's sake; the spectator was expected to be concerned only in the question of ultimate victory or defeat, and not in the performance of individual contestants; it was a question of teams, not persons. But of late there has been a gradual change of policy--a crystallization of willingness on the part of coaches to see the game from the onlooker's point of view. All branches of sport are beginning to realize the added value to be attained by identifying the players, thus making them human...
...government has almost nothing to offer for the guarantees which would come from us. Can we believe that the economic advantages of trade with Russia are so great that we should rid ourselves of all aversion to Soviet ideas and enter into an agreement--which involves recognition--for the sake of a gain as uncertain at bottom as Bolshevist Russia itself...
...Moors ended his talk by urging the members present to vote. . . for a government by parties." This is exactly the reverse of Mr. Moors' meaning. He clearly made a distinction between voting for an issue--namely the League of Nations, as opposed to victory for party for its own sake. He showed that the Republican party in this election cannot pledge itself firmly on the chief issue because the party is divided on the question of a League...