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Trying to establish the identity of the culprits responsible for what it calls "one of the biggest hoaxes in American history" the Crimson states that "it might be blamed on the students who took the test and answered it factious, but it seems logical to accuse the Times itself for distributing such a poll and taking the results so seriously...
...among the suspicious. Said he: "Personal contact is rare, save for those who do not compel the Prime Minister to the fatigue of high argument; for he has reached that dizzy eminence where a request for the re-examination of his premises of action is regarded by him as factious opposition...
...course, true that wars will not cease through lack of armaments, but it is no less true that the possibilities of war are relative to the nations fighting strength. The making of modern munitions involves huge expenses, and if the factious South American countries, and the opposing elements in China were forced by the stoppage of foreign supplies to build their own arms factories, and had to rely on their own output, they would think twice before going to war. Moreover, the curtailment that would result from diminished markets would of itself relegate the armament industry to a far less...
Well over six feet in height and built to be a wrestler. Professor Merriman lectures in a deep booming voice which, at crucial moments, rises to a preposterously high pitch. The universal nickname, "Frisky", which ranks with "Copey" and "Kitty" among Harvard's factious sobriquets, has clung to him since his college days, did not spring, as so many think, from his animated platform manner. Anathema to him are hats, newspapers, or sleeping students in the New Lecture Hall just before he begins his lecture. He is a strong Anglophile, swallows his ever present pipe half way down his threat...
...Daughters of the American Revolution have poured the vials of their colonial malice on the head of Professor Felix Frankfurter, urging with factious vehemence that he be excluded from any Federal appointment. The crusade will take the form of letters to President Roosevelt, carefully warning him of Professor Frankfurter's liberalism, of the dangerous movements to which he has ventured to lend the weight of his influence in the past, of his general radicalism and undesirability...