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There is that in your editorial "The Iron Man" which smacks of the hypocrite, the pharisee who always knows what is best for his brother. There is that which might well solicit from the working youth an uncultured guffaw or a contemptuous snort according to the condition of his uneducated liver...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Oh No! My Fine Gentlemen" | 11/18/1921 | See Source »

...orals are a test of the average college man's ability as a linguist, French should be as intelligible to him as Hottentot to an Eskimo. Yet we hear the voluminous applause of six hundred men at the proper dramatic pause, and the right ripple or broad guffaw of as many at the humorous interlude. It may be that a few, habituated to the Gallic tongue, lead the applause, and the rest follow to show that they also are of the appreciative and selected cultured...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PARLEZ VOUS? | 5/26/1917 | See Source »

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