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...ever generous alumnus of Harvard College Year after year, men who have established a round claim to literary accomplishment of that kind most nearly approaching Longinus' definition of the sublime, will give of their personality their particular genius, to the often stressed but seldom realized summum bonum of college life, intellectual inspiration...
...what are the faculties going to do about it? Gag the the college press, or formulate a rule of "nil nisi bonum do doetribus," and the self-sufficient young college man will at once assume the dignity of a martyr, and then there is no telling what bad thing may happen. Cleveland Plain Dealer...
...Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonum...
...suffered most severely of all Presidential booms because of the disclosure that Mr. McAdoo and his firm had received $150,000 in retainers from Mr. Do-heny. Some Republicans openly celebrated his political funeral. Senator Moses of New Hampshire, asked about McAdoo and oil replied: "De mortuis nil nisi bonum...
With Mr. McAdoo's endorsement the delegates to the meeting adopted the slogan, "Back to honesty." The McAdoo men gave their leader a clean bill of health. Their unanimous opinion was "Nil nisi bonum...