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Those of us who have been planning the convention to be held here next Saturday and Sunday and who have been looking forward to the establishment of an intercollegiate liberal organization, appreciate the editorial which appeared in the CRIMSON on Saturday. The warning which it sounded is not inapt; the advice which it offered is welcome. It would be easy for such an organization to slip into some of the evil ways of liberalism, to become "bigoted and impassioned", to "exhibit its own particular little idiosyncrasies". But it is our hope that the organization which is seen to be created...
There remain to be mentioned the editorials, which are sound in substance and easy enough in style, though a little perfunctory; Mr. Thacher Nelson's verse, "After Rain," which has some good lines but some inapt words (does a road sough, for instance?); and a thoughtful, well-written article by Mr. Earle Stafford, "Humanity and Sanity," on General von Bernhard's now famous book...
...still more fundamental importance is the problem of preserving the quality of the race; for upon this depends the permanence of civilization itself. This should be sharply distinguished from such an inapt expression as "race suicide," which has so impressed uncritical minds. There is as much danger of race suicide as there is of famine through over-population. The real danger is that there may be race degeneration through the failure to multiply on the part of those best fitted to improve the stock; that is, those who have shown their talents by their achievements. Obviously, no race can maintain...
...Apthorp Gould Fuller '00, exemplifies the evil of disingenuousness of expression. With the evident purpose of outdoing Stevenson, the writer has produced a story which sounds strained and selfconscious. Although pertinent and novel expressions are usually better than conventional ones, yet he uses phrases which are not only inapt but objectionable in their unconventionality...
Clark, for the negative, again called attention to the exact reading of the question. He was earnest, but wasted his rebuttal in drawing out a somewhat inapt simile in regard to building a fence around an apple orchard...