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...social success has been achieved alongside a fraternity system that claims nine thriving units and 19 percent of Yale's undergraduates. Masters and students disagree on how much fraternities and Colleges compete for the loyalties of undergraduates. Fraternity men think there is a tension between the two. College masters confess there is some split loyalty, but consider it negligible and on the decline. They note that especially among the socially-conscious Yalies there is bound to be a "smart set" that will want some measure of exclusiveness...
...came upon some of the more curious aspects of U.S. politics. Allen discovered some corruption, but, he wrote, "the fortunate thing for America is that under our system nobody ever achieves absolute power and that we therefore do not become absolutely corrupt ... I am a little ashamed to confess that petty corruption doesn't shock me very much, because in my cynical middle age I have come to think of it as inevitable...
...experience of two World Wars has proved that an excess profits tax is not an efficient way of "mobilizing the profits dollar" or, for that matter, of capturing unreasonable war profits. Even Harry Truman's own tax experts privately confess that in both wars the tax proved inherently unfair, vastly difficult to administer, and an unsatisfactory revenue producer. Last week Tax Expert Beardsley Ruml told the American Bar Association in Washington that the clamor for an excess profits tax is "a hysterical manifestation of schizophrenic masochism." Nobody, he added, had ever yet been able to devise a good...
...most cheering events for the people of these United States would be a general acknowledgment of ignorance and a confession of sin by our leaders. Is there no one who has the grace to humbly confess his part in the events which led us to this place of trouble...
...last three years 200,000 people gave me name cards declaring their willingness to join Christ. I do not say I persuaded them. We have 60 volunteer workers to follow up those who confess, but it is not enough...