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Persons anxious to condemn the younger generation should remember that the worst of a thing, like an excrescence, is always the most evident while what is truly of worth is silent and unseen. When people who engage in such criticism realize this truth there will be less indiscriminate condemnation. ADRIEN GAMBET '25 October...
Perhaps we shouldn't have classed Mrs. Loring's book as a "Western novel". That may condemn it yet unread to many a reader. But it will commend it to as many more; so we will not retract...
...condemn the French, is there any rhyme or reason in sanctioning Shakespeare, Milton, Gibbon, even the Bible, in whose pages may be found "foul and indecent" passages? They too have been censored in the past. In fact, to put the shoe on the other foot, the Parisian authorities once, banned Fielding's "Tom Jones", to the righteous glee of Richardson, who had never forgiven Fielding for his burlesque on "Pamela". But today we accept classics in English as they are, dirty and not washed behind the ears, if you like, but still themselves, uncensored. To discriminate against such classics because...
More than fitting it is, moreover, that Boston should be the first to condemn and banish the labours of its own sons in order that the homes of those sturdy descendants of the Puritans, -- the O'Rourkes, the Flahertys and the O'Houlihans,--may be kept inviolate even as that stern-eyed Roman, the elder Brutus, sentenced to death his own son for treachery to the state...
...possible altogether to condemn the attitude. Twice France has been burned, and burned severely, for lack of sufficient protection against German fire, and naturally she has no desire for a third experience. Furthermore, as M. Barthou pointed out, Chancellor Wirth has given her no reason to regard her old enemy as a penitent sinner. Agreements signed by the Germans are still mere scraps of paper--as witnessed by the refusal to keep the reparation promises. Her troops, too, keep having unpleasant little experiences with bombs while carrying out the provisions of the treaty. Only a day or two ago, while...