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...still an open question whether the University errs in the way it admits students, but, layman or educator, no one can doubt that the ingrown attitude towards teachers who resign or are dismissed sometimes makes Harvard appear in the wrong...
Later, John Osceola, released in custody of his white attorney, was allowed to explain himself, through an interpreter, on the radio. Said he: "He my cousin, but he bad Indian too. I kill him by cuttem belly with knife." Listeners wondered whether the police had arrested him for the wrong crime...
Golden Boy. Clifford Odets' play about a pugilist-fiddler who, having to choose between his fists and his fingers, chooses wrong (TIME...
...Better Times. . . . Mr. [Publisher Arthur Hays] Sulzberger is quoted as saying of the Spanish War, I confess to a vast sense of relief that I do not have to take sides either with Loyalist or Rebel.' He is glad he is not compelled to choose between right and wrong. Normal persons, and certainly the masses of the people, will feel horror at such moral disintegration...
...good index of what the public, as opposed to the professional, is doing in the stockmarket-showed sales exceeding purchases. Since the public had been a consistent buyer during the recent market decline, this suggested to Wallstreeters that the old market adage, "The public is always wrong," was still true. But SEC suspected something else. It launched an investigation to find out whether the sudden change in odd-lot trading was due to an increase in odd-lot short sales caused by professional speculators seeking to avoid the new restriction of round-lot short selling which went into effect...