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...another, to the distaste of all concerned. Every one of the seven articles printed in the CRIMSON for the guidance of the Freshmen, admitted the existence of cliques in the House. This is definite evidence that college men will not have people whom they do not care for, thrust upon them as friends. A cross section would merely multiply the number of these cliques to the benefit...
...because she was a queen who came to a bad end, but because she was "the average woman of yesterday, today, and tomorrow . . . and therefore (one might fancy) unsuited to become the heroine of a tragedy. . . . But tragedy arises no less when a momentous position, a crushing responsibility, is thrust upon a mediocrity or a weakling. Indeed, tragedy in this form makes a strong appeal to our human sympathies. . . . Marie Antoinette, the mediocrity, achieved a greatness commensurate with her destiny...
President Scott, however, thinks otherwise. His prodigies, apparently selected without reference to emotional or psychic stability are collectively thrust into an artificial environment, minutely supervised by a committee, and submitted to a special brand of instruction. Revision of college courses to provide opportunity for work at varied levels would be a much saner procedure. That the Northwestern prodigies will be successful in their college work is as obvious as it is irrelevant. After four years, however, they will leave, socially unfitted, intellectually strained, and quite as far from the good life as they had been before. Possibly the professorial...
Instantly President Roosevelt, without hat or overcoat in the chill wind, swung around to the crowd before him, launched vigorously into his inaugural address. His easy smile was gone. His large chin was thrust out defiantly as if at some invisible, insidious foe. A challenge rang in his clear strong voice. For 20 vibrant minutes he held his audience, seen and unseen, under a strong spell. Only occasionally was he interrupted by cheers & applause...
What John Doctor did, "any person excepting a corporation and excepting a farmer'' could do last week as the result of a bill signed by President Hoover day before he left office. An important revision of the Federal Bankruptcy Law. the measure represented a final thrust by a dying Congress at the dragon of private debt. By providing machinery whereby an individual could compose or compromise his debts under a judicial eye, it required only a bare majority of creditors to effect an agreement...