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...from strict truth. Carlyle's outspoken opinions on the subject of lawyers are well known and Matthew Arnold once said that he was thankful when a friend of his escaped from the law. It is the general opinion that a lawyer will advocate a cause, be it right or wrong, and no less a man than Dr. Johnson said that no lawyer should question the right or wrong in the case he advocates...
...seem to have come to feel that the executive committee is alone responsible for the success of the meetings, and that they do their part if they attend the meetings and find fault if anything goes wrong. Unquestionably the executive committee is especially responsible; the members realize this fact and will do their utmost to make the meetings good...
...compiling and arranging his figures. Taking it for granted that these figures are correct, is found that the correspondent's conclusions are both illogical and inaccurate. But on the contrary even his original figures, do not possess this one merit of accuracy, and therefore his conclusions are totally wrong. It seems, however, as if it were impossible to look on this more charitable view of the case, and that the correspondent took his position not merely from premises deduced from his inaccurate figures, but from a real desire to prove that Harvard is losing ground throughout the country. If, then...
...figures of the Advocate correspondent for 1889-90 are so utterly wrong that it would be impossible to correct all the mistakes in them without going over the whole ground again. The true number of men here from the west (using the west shortly for the United States outside of New England and New York) is 458, instead of 541, as the Advocate correspondent has it. It is easy to calculate that 458 is 22 per cent. of 2079. Yet the Advocate correspondent makes 541, almost 100 more than 458, only 20.6 per cent. of the same number. Errors such...
...then feel bound to keep the matter from the knowledge of the captain or coach. I have very recently heard rumors concerning the doubtful training of individuals who are rowing with various crews, even concerning candidates for the 'varsity. Of course a coach can see that there is something wrong with the men, but is hard to accuse them of breaking training. When asked why they are looking badly, or why they are slow and unsteady in their movements, they "don't know, but suppose they are being worked too hard." Of course they are! When individuals on the team...