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...opportunity for literary experimentation. But one cannot help feeling that Professor Hurbut would be a better guide to his students if he lived less in the literary past. While it is greatly to his credit that he should profess an admiration for the works of Jane Austen and the eighteenth century authors, it is less to his credit as an instructor that he should at the same time proclaim so complete an ignorance of Michael Arlen and his ill if only for the sake of pointing out the absurdities of these scriveners to his pupils...
Dean BROWN, for his part, would probably join Professor SMITH in this view, while placing stress on compliance with the duly enacted laws even at one's discomfort or personal loss. Question the expediency or wisdom of the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead act and do what you can to bring about their modification or repeal if you believe them to be unnecessary or injurious, but obey them both. Democracy cannot endure without habitual obedience. That is axiomatic. On the other hand, it cannot progress to its highest state through standardization, extrinsic suppression or legislative restraints. It can have that...
...Martin that he held no narrow views on the use of alcoholics and that the conduct of alumni was no affair of the President of Yale, Dr. Angell had been charged by a fanatical Pennsylvania alumnus with conniving at a "conspiracy in the class of '95 to violate the Eighteenth Amendment and flout the Constitution." "O! tempora," commented a Yale alumnus who had studied Latin, "Oh ! Mory...
...CRIMSON, "is the author of a large number of significant books. Notable among these works is a translation of the works of Saxo Grammaticus, a study of Michael Drayton, and particularly a distinguished work in four volumes on the history of English literature from the middle of the eighteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth...
...That violation of the Eighteenth Amendment during commencement this year, has been deliberately planned, was brought to my attention a few days after reading your Times letter. Seeking help to prevent such lawbreaking at his reunion, the Rev. Clement G. Clarke of Portland, Oregon, a '95 graduate, wrote that he was communicating with you and others. In writing me he quoted an excerpt from a letter written him by the Chairman of his class Reunion Committee, an ex-President of the Yale Club of New York City, as follows...