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...Nobody notices human suffering in all this fuss about machinery and the Five-Year-Plan," complained a flashing-eyed non-Communist oldster. "The things I fought for - Freedom, Equality. Happiness - somehow the Revolution has lost sight of them!" No grumbler is Bomb Boy Michael Frolenko. ancient, grizzled Chief Assassin (there were 20) of Tsar Alexander II, who "liberated"' Russia's 20,000.000 serfs. After the bombing "the Emperor . . . presented a terrific sight," writes his eyewitness-nephew, Grand Duke Alexander, "his right leg torn off, his left leg shattered, innumerable wounds all over his head and face...
...enthusiasm as before. This, however, has nothing to do with the case. We feel that in keeping this matter of support to Captain Waters and his men before the minds of their fellow students we may gradually bring up the whole plane of feeling here so that finally the grumbler and the critic shall find themselves distinctly out of fashion...
...most interesting articles in the New England Magazine for May is that by O. S. Adams on "Some Old Newspapers." That unfortunate species of Harvard student, the grumbler. who reads the DAILY CRIMSON every morning with more or less interest, and then indulges in indiscriminate and uncalled-for vituperation of it, will no doubt find Mr. Adams' description of old time methods of conducting newspapers much to his liking; for at the time of which Mr. Adams wrote, little or no stress was laid upon enterprise. At any rate the general reader will be greatly entertained by the author...
...daily college journalism by two such estimable companions. We are pleased, too, to notice that the Ocrnell Era has donned the garb of a Harvard publication. It is a delicate compliment to old Mother Advocate, and may help, when it is known, to still the croaking of some chronic grumbler about the college papers here in Cambridge...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - I was not born a grumbler, but I am in a fair way to become one. I am not very much more sensitive to a lack of comfort than my fellow beings, but I have endured, during the past two months, such great discomfort, that I must trespass upon your space a little to air my grievances. Imprimis. I take Pol. Econ. IV which recites in Massachusetts. I believe you have published a previous complaint about the absence of shades on the windows in that building, and I wish to reiterate...