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...creditor's knock, he took the odiously regarded job of exciseman, but gave it a Robin Hood touch: "I recorded every Defaulter, but at the Court, I myself begged off every poor body that was unable to pay, which seeming candour gave me so much implicit credit with the Hon. Bench that . . . they gave me ample vengeance on the rest...
...purpose but furthering the business; in giving money to Princeton, it was violating its contract with its stockholders and depriving them of their property rights in the assets of the company. Judge Alfred A. Stein of the superior court disagreed. Said he: just as a company has the implicit right to advertise its wares, "so in respect of good will, anything that tends to promote with the public a company's good will is a reasonable measure towards the corporate objective of earning profits...
...more frequently heard is the procession of words deserving to be named the Jericho Sermon. Some preachers . . . seem to have implicit faith that if they march around the outside of a subject seven times, making a loud noise, the walls will fall down. They rarely...
...have any sympathy for Communists or their police state ideas. And since no Communist deserves permanent tenure in the future, the entire issue should fade away with the current batch of tenured professors. The risks involved in keeping a known and non-disciplined Communist are much smaller than those implicit in breaking the tenure code because of a lawful though stupid political affiliation. Because breaking tenure rules in even one unjustified instance is like drilling a hole in a dike, a Communist should have as much of a chance as anyone else to show his competence to his fellow teachers...
...supervision of teachers, subtle interrogation of students, foolish and needless imposition of loyalty oaths, but the recruiting of competent men & women sufficiently dedicated to the ideas of teaching and scholarship to recognize that such practices are incompatible with professional integrity. Once we have found such teachers, we should have implicit faith in them and not swoop or hover over them to determine what they are teaching...