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Hitherto, the great majority of Law School men have been unable to live in University buildings, for the facilities have provided for only a small percentage of the fifteen hundred students. They have been forced to dwell in scattered boarding houses and apartments, and most have had to take their meals in restaurants...
...weighted with the soddeness of haggis, but there are flashing moments which can only be accounted for by the finest, most digestable port. True these vibrant moments when they happen to be historical as well are seldom correct, but who really cares. It is just as pleasant to dwell upon the imagined death of Danton as it is to come to grips with the real fashion in which he fled this vale of tears. It is a particularly moving picture, that of the squat unheroic figure standing at the guillotine staring off over the sweating Paris crowd murmuring to himself...
...Next to food and clothing, the housing of a nation is its most vital problem. . . . The sentiment for home ownership is embedded in the American heart [of] millions of people who dwell in tenements, apartments and rented rows of solid brick. . . . This aspiration penetrates the heart of our national wellbeing. It makes for happier married life. It makes for better children. It makes for courage to meet the battle of life. . . . There is a wide distinction between homes and mere housing. Those immortal ballads, 'Home, Sweet Home,' 'My Old Kentucky Home' and 'The Little Grey...
...analysis of the past as a palliative. Mr. Shorey was speaking to a society which popular opinion represents as the finest intellectual group at Harvard. The hope of American letters, therefore should rest with them more than with any other body. If they are to be advised to dwell within the security of the past, the aims of a Harvard education are disavowed...
...attitude towards theology which seems to prevail in the "Theological" School and at Harvard generally, is only too well justified. One would gather, from the theological lectures in History 57 that the religious formulations of our culture are based entirely on ignorance and an almost deliberate perversity. But to dwell on the intellectual absurdity of a theological doctrine is as irrelevant, to an understanding either of the doctrine itself or of religion in general, as ridicule of the linear distortions of El Greco or Diego Ribera would be to an understandings of art. These distortions must of course, be studied...