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...achievement of a kind of sincerity not easily cultivated under anonymity. In his discussion of "Swinburne's Relation to the Poetry of the Immediate Past and Future" J. H. Wheelock '08 is not quite articulate and not always grammatical. He is touched with some of the verbal diseases that afflict the poet of his admiration--the excessive use of abstract terms, and the reluctance to tell us precisely and specifically what he is talking about. The wistful melody of the same contributor's verses have somewhat of this same defect of vagueness. H. Hagedorn '07 in his perilous attempt...
...minimum of paper money. I have called attention to the parallels of the uncovered notes in three of the soundest currency systems in the world. I have referred to the remarkable success of our own greenbacks up to 1890. I have shown that of all the evils that afflict our currency system today, not one is inherent in the legal tenders; for of the three causes of the present trouble, the first and second were due to an iniquitous act passed wholly in the interests of silver. And for the third and final cause, I have shown that we must...
...Afflict my spirit, and I late return...