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...change. Parliamentary action cannot accomplish the necessary end for a variety of reasons; revolution directed by intelligent, class-conscious members of the proletariat is the only possible solution of the intolerable problem which faces the entire world. Wage-slavery, class divisions, capitalist oppression, all these must go into the discard; the inertia of the working class holds it from action; freedom can come, then only through the determined action of clear-sighted leaders who will bring about the revolution at the most opportune moment, gather together and verify the forces of the proletariat, and organize the new world...
Declaring that he would "discard either and all of the titles" on which he had been announced to speak, and would "just talk," Samuel Gompers, speaking at the Union last light, reviewed not the "Case for the Closed Shop" nor any specific labor question, but the whole subject of the rights and aspirations of labor...
Similarly, every type of person, every touchy weakness--of "us mortals," is picked up, held to public gaze, ridiculed and thrown in the discard. It is certain that one person alone would not enjoy this play; but when comfortably seated in the midst of a large audience, it is as delightful as it could be, for then one is sure that it is always the 'other person" at whom the missile is aimed. It seems to be somewhat of a case of "You can make some of the people wince all of the time, all of the people some...
...Furthermore, it is the intention to conduct a cooperative course in more than merely the name. Therefore meddling is farthest from the intention of the School. If a student has reason to think that any question might be considered annoying to his superiors, he is always asked to discard such a question. Every man from the School is expected to be a 100 percent workman while on the job, and of course any connection with the College is not permitted to interfere with this purpose...
...that the Harvard football record of the past ten years has attained sufficient success to earn for those, who have given their time and thought to its development, all reasonable protection, and I do not believe that it is necessary for Harvard, in order to be good sportsmen, to discard the results of this ceaseless effort. A football play cannot be patented but I see no reason why the product of the brain should not be given all reasonable safe-guards...