Word: cited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just written a short prefatory note to the new edition of Miss Wurdemann's Bright Ambush. . . . Such as that Mr. Auslander is "a lyric, not to say a complaining, poet" is to me an entirely uncalled-for, not to say an utterly unmeaning line. I could cite complaint, as your critic understands the term-or appears to understand it-in every fine poet since and including Shakespeare. Any adverse comment on existence might be so cited as a "complaint." The "complaint" in Dante and in Milton must indeed be enormous! The whole thing is laughable, if it were...
...Cited was an instance in which one of His Majesty's subjects was arrested last year "for using the wrong swing in a public park," sentenced to pay a fine, jailed when he proved penniless. In 1932, the latest year for which Sir John could cite statistics, one-half of all persons jailed in England and Wales were incarcerated for nonpayment...
...which predominates at Harvard, is based on the presumption that legal decisions are made with reference to the letter of the law and that previous decisions should determine the conduct and disposal of all legal problems. As an expression of this type of thinking carried to the extreme we cite the famous remark of a Harvard professor to the student who mentioned Justice, "If you want Justice, go to the Divinity School." This statement is eloquent in its crass failure to meet the issue...
...editorial page of the CRIMSON has been steadily declining. Not only are your editorials, in the main, miserably written, but they exhibit an appalling lack of conviction. In an attempt to formulate an editorial policy there has resulted a complete lack of policy. By way of example, I cite the ludicrous sophistry of the editorial published in Friday morning's paper of last week on the Mellon scholarship. If you desired to change your position from that previously taken on the Hanfstaengl scholarship, it would have been far wiser and infinitely more honest to have admitted flatly your earlier mistake...
Harvardmen invented the case system of teaching law, deducing legal principles from cases actually decided in court. The Gluecks likewise cite cases of wayward women to exemplify the whole problem...