Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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What the people really want has little to do with the matter. Mr. Lodge knows the will of the people. Mr. Hitchcock knows the will of the people. "Mirabile Dictu." To each it appears a different thing. For such deadlocks as these unprofitable trials of brute strength our government provides no solution except compromise...
From the point of view of the upper classman any thing that restricts the "laissez faire" principle that pervades Cambridge is regarded as undesirable, and therefore there was at the beginning of the year a genuine feeling of disapproval of compulsory athletics. That feeling, we think, has passed away, as time has shown what the system has done...
...peace is here. The real victors have been the people's victors east of the Rhine. I grieve that the Allies have been the victors, for the triumph is so vicious in its after effects that right and justice fail. The one thing that interests me now is the social revolution east of the Rhine. I glory in the Soviet Republic of Russia and pray for the day when it shall be established in all the world...
...have left "Billet Ballads"--Mr. Leys--and incidentally--the prize-winning story, for the last. One feels like saying, "Who is this man--what?" and "all that sort of thing." It is easy enough to prattle admiration or censure from the easy chair. Perhaps it might be best summed up by saying that if Mr. Leys' farce doesn't sell out this number then Cambridge doesn't recognize its own true genius--in humor at least. If in judging the stories submitted a fairminded judge had seen "Spiking Spicer" first, no one--else--the rest is death--what? Certainly...
When Daniel Webster picked out the thing that above all others he would leave to his posterity it was a record that in all circumstances he had favored freedom of opinion, in war as in peace, more essentially for opinions that were in bad repute. I'wish I could remember who it was that warned the House of Commons against taking from the rattlesnake the rattle by which he gives warning of his approach and leaving the sting with which he kills. In suppressing opinion we take away the rattle. In failing to put into practice new institutions needed...