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...view of the fact that years ago the Vagabond formed a half-hearted resolution to be one of the "world's workers", and forego for the time being anything in the nature of an entangling alliance his reasons may differ slightly from those of some for being present at nine o'clock in Sever, when and where Professor Richards will talk about the late poet laureate. Robert Bridges...
...spoon talent is regarded as unlikely. Albert Spalding's debut was received with a certain suspicion. Says he: "The audience seemed to expect me to come out in a baseball suit." The wise Spaldings lost little time in sizing up the situation. Father Spalding suggested that his son forego subsidized concerts, start barnstorming, play in small towns for small fees. Through Russia, at 22, Albert traveled second and third class, playing one-night stands. No one knew he was the son of a sporting goods tycoon. His manager was a shyster and pocketed all the receipts. But Spalding made...
...Science of Government Emeritus, told a CRIMSON reporter, "and it is of use to know how many of your neighbors think with you. But I must say that my reaction to the results of the balloting is a keen disappointment in seeing that college men are not willing to forego the doubtful pleasure of becoming 'tight' in order that the community as a whole may benefit...
Pierre DuPont,--"Ten years of experience show that the people of the United States are not ready to forego the use of intoxicants. Thinking men must bend their energies to develop a plan devised to meet the needs of the people and at the same time to prevent the abuse of alcohol. Diversity of opinion demands state control as the Federal law must be uniform and cannot meet the diverse needs of a scattered population...
...significance should be looked into by the proper authorities at that institution. There was once a typical attitude supposedly engendered by the Harvard training called Harvard indifference. The suspension of the Harvard prom must be a renaissance in a peculiarly terrible form of that phenomenon. Young men who voluntarily forego the pleasure of merely gazing upon these annual migrations of beauty, not to mention mingling in them and conversing with their members, are, in our opinion, young men of decidedly poor judgement...