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Sirs: TIME, Dec. 5, p. 18, says in col. 2 : "He said, 'I will burn it because I have no reason for satisfying morbid public curiosity.' After this arrogant comment . . ." etc. Of course I am wrong in thinking Sir Basil's comment not arrogant that arrogant implied overbearing assertion of superiority, of others' rights not recognized, that haughty would be better here, that haughty implies only a consciousness of superiority. Wrong words in wrong places keep TIME from the best tables. Haughtily, RODERICK BISSELL JONES Winstead, Conn...
...wrong. I am on a newspaper myself and notice that the reporters have a hard time with English, but a terrible time when they wander into a foreign tongue, alive or dead...
...touchy old egg, but he's been on the level. . . . The Legion is no young ladies' seminary, though I've never been to one. . . . "Discipline-that's all Legionnaires know . . . but I've never been punished for anything unless I was in wrong." When Mr. Doty reached Paris, last week, he said: "Once an officer asked me why I had joined the Foreign Legion, and I had to tell him that I didn't for the life of me know. He said I must have been crazy." At London correspondents discovered, last week...
...highly probable that nine times out of ten the student is wrong and his advisor is right, but that does not alter the situation in the slightest. He is planning his own college work, and so long as he adheres to the college requirements, anything further in the choice of courses should be left to him. Let the advisor give his advice, leaving the student free to take it or leave it. After all he is going to hoe his own row. The Cornell...