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...further that Dr. Eliot has not "noticed" far enough. What shall we do with the cases of Mathew Arnold, Montaigne, Disraeli and others, who, it seems to me, upset Dr. Eliot's argument that "they have not turned out well." . . . Are we to condemn that phase arbitrarily as unfortunate? Then condemn a large part of your race...
...they would fill the infirmary, and the number of cases of stomach trouble cured there would lead to an investigation on the digestability of the food served them, assuming that this were the cause of their illness there are other ways by which a Freshman's stomach can be upset in our days...
...myself attach any importance to these statements and any criticisms that may have been made based on them do not in any way upset my equanimity. I have a philosophy of my own about such matters which has long stood me in good stead. So long as our conscience is clear, so long as we know that we have done nothing to besmirch our honor, our honor is safe. Nothing that any one else can say can touch it and therefore nothing that others can say or do need really trouble us greatly, provided we really have a clear conscience...
...universally popular, who can persuade the girls not to trill and warble? They all act already, but a working-girl opera, such as Mr. Kahn proposes to inflict upon the docile audience, will ruin the hearts and digestions of a whole generation of young Americans whose lives will be upset by the operatic tantrums of the "jazz baby...
...Princeton 34; Harvard 0." This little upset in the Harvard athletic world is not, as has been said, a University calamity. It is just a straw; just the first of a series of vivid eye-openers, which will summon the vast and loving army of Harvard graduates to the colors, for the desperately-needed battle against indifference. Fair Harvard must be more than "only fair...