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...Partisan. This was high talk. All the way across the country, in plains, mountains, woods, cities, people listened, went away thinking. This sort of talk drew no applause. Whether it fell flat or sank deep, only Election Day would prove. But the cheers came only for griddle-hot partisan talk, and Willkie's strength or weakness as a candidate still lay in the fact that he is a reasonable man who doesn't know how to talk partisan politics. Too reasonable, said Roosevelt-haters...
...passing years a powerful public servant in the field of liberty." But his next words were to belie that statement. Once again, as he had in 1918, Dr. Butler was sounding the death knell of academic freedom at Columbia. "Before and above academic freedom of any kind or sort comes the right and obligation of the university itself to pursue its high ideals unhampered and unembarrassed by conduct on the part of any of its members which tends to damage its reputation, to lessen its influence or to lower its authority...
...shortage of space in Widener." That Treasure Room situation has been an open scandal for years. On rainy afternoons it's so packed with Freshmen that you can't get within whistling distance of "Lady Chatterley's Lover," unexpurgated edition. Now there'll be lots of room for that sort of thing...
This information was divulged at an hour-long press conference yesterday morning when the British Lord, who doesn't use his title "because it's a sort of anonymity," traded wise cracks and discussed logical positivism with 15 reporters...
Somehow philosophers and fishing seem to go together. There were Izaak Walton and Thoreau, for instance, who liked to be contemplative while seated in a boat, dangling a line overside. Was Mr. Russell an angler of any sort...