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Although there may be some justification for this inference by one unacquainted with the facts, any thorough reading of all the appraisals printed will clearly show that the writer's inference does not conform to the actual case. The "Crimson" has praised and censured alike. After eighteen conferences with men selected by their respective departments it has been our invariable experience to find students open-minded and quite willing to give frank opinions-of anyone in their fields. There is no reason to believe that men selected by their departments should be especially favorable toward their particular faculty, or that...
...lack of it. ... There is no reason why places for the consumption of liquor should not be made comfortable and decorative. . . . Pictures, as well as flowers, may brighten a corner. "Obscene' should not be an execration lightly to be hurled at a painting because it does not conform to one's own viewpoint. . . . The picture is not obscene, therefore I shall not order its removal...
...Manhattan's Woolworth Building, the Minnesota Capitol, the New York Customs House, the U. S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, the Detroit Public Library-all of them handsome, elaborate, rich in borrowed decoration. On the Supreme Court Building, Chief Justice Taft gave him three orders: "The building must conform in design with the Capitol. It should be enduring. And Mrs. Taft says it should be easy to keep clean...
...Justice Roberts for the majority: "It is sometimes said that the Court assumes a power to overrule or control the action of the people's representatives. This is a misconception. The Constitution is the supreme law of the land, ordained and established by the people. All legislation must conform to the principles it lays down. When an Act of Congress is appropriately challenged in the courts as not conforming to the constitutional mandate the judicial branch of the Government has only one duty-to lay the article of the Constitution which is invoked beside the statute which is challenged...
...allowed to inspect these same buildings and compel obedience to local laws against fire hazards. Informed of this at his press conference next day, the President declared that Government edifices certainly should conform to fire laws. Then a newshawk pointed out that the entrance door of his own Executive Offices broke the laws by opening inward...