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...away with his fleet excursions into the past-Norman England, old France, Rome, Egypt, Cathay-where, in translation and paraphrase, he brought to life moments and persons of high passion and beauty, each age with its own sharp flavor. Poetry being essentially a personal thing, none may credit nor gainsay Novelist Ford's estimate of Poet Pound. As criticism it is a foolish phrase. But it is certain that Ezra Pound is ... a poet that doth drink life As lesser men drink wine. He has been mad through the mountains of Cabaret with Peire Vidal, maddest jongleur...
...about, cannot help but be of some use. Bizarre ideas and titles, while they are good advertising, are always modified under working conditions. And if the new school meets its great test, that of controlling the energy of youth as expressed by 10,000 murders a year, who will gainsay its merit...
...will gainsay the statement that no great change in the average student's attitude towards work can be attained unless the major impetus be supplied by the teacher. Accordingly, to better the student it is necessary to better the teacher...
...impression that the governing board is more occupied in guarding them against "dangerous doctrine" than in providing a broad and varied schedule of speakers; the proviso in question may accentuate this feeling. But if the governing board adopts a liberal and reasonable attitude under the present reservation nobody will gainsay its justice. In this as in the broader question of the choice of regular Union speakers, everything depends on the true liberalism of those in authority at the Union...
...question before all men today is how they can best serve their country. College students exist because some men are unqualified for war service and because many more believe that a higher utility lies in an academic preparation for the future. We can gainsay the position of neither, but we can maintain that past experience has shown an indifferent attitude of not a few toward the obligations of the time...