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...however unsound, in the philosophy. After all it is the function of the Advocate to express undergraduate ideas rather than to rival professional magazines. That is excuse enough for the very patronizing book review. It doesn't excuse, however, such unintelligible verse as the Sonnet. One always hesitates to confess missing the point of a poem obviously subtle for fear that like the folk in the fable one isn't worthy of his office if he fails to see the magic garment of the king; as for this sonnet I for one can make neither head nor tail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADVOCATE PLAYS APE REVIEWER BELIEVES | 9/29/1924 | See Source »

Agriculture. "I confess that my inheritance and personal experience have bred in me a keen interest in the welfare of agriculture. ... As many as 15 laws have been passed to assist and support this fundamental industry. Through the War Finance Corporation it has been extended credits of between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Candidate Coolidge | 8/25/1924 | See Source »

Wayne B. Wheeler, General Counsel and Legislative Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League: "If we confess that we cannot enforce our laws we cease to be a Nation. . . . Human progress will be turned back and the current now steadily setting toward a Golden Age will lose its force in a backwater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Heavenward Ho! | 7/28/1924 | See Source »

...Independents: "One of the greatest exhibitions of an instinct to be good divorced completely from the obligation to be intelligent lies in the tendency of those unripe in American politics to worship mere independence. I confess that I have found that independence is a bad way to get joint action of any kind in real motion. Usually when two independents rally around the banner of independence it results in two banners of independence and then four and then eight. No man or woman in the world is so independent as an independent. As political workers they are usually fanatically unselfish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW BOOK: The Behinder | 7/28/1924 | See Source »

...months ago he was forced to exclaim in the House of Commons: "In regard to pledges and their fulfilment, why should not I confess that we are a little innocent in this matter? If we are without experience, things which seemed very simple to carry out become very complicated and difficult when we become members of a Cabinet responsible for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Labor Belabored | 7/28/1924 | See Source »

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