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...Ladder. Rule No. 8 is the last one: Don't go around without a ladder. That is, always have handy a means of climbing down from the eminence you achieve, that you may live to try again four years later. Most notable recent breaker of this rule is Lowden of Illinois who committed political suicide after losing the 1928 Republican nomination by rushing angrily off without due warning to his friends...
There is justification, however, in the argument that the present regime tends to overemphasize the value of these printed works when considering the Who's who for Promotion. The rising young pedagogue who hopes to negotiate one more rung on the educational ladder is quite aware that, in some form or another, be it a rehashed obscurantism or a highly specialized bit of laboratory research, a book bearing his name on the title-page and the Harvard University Press imprimatur on the fly-leaf is a necessary footstool. Naturally, under such conditions it is unfair to criticize the youthful Ph.D...
Time Out pauses to wonder and to weigh judiciously any ramifications that must naturally ensue when Radcliffe, Smith, Beacon Street, and points east begin to tread the greensward of a weekend. Harvard, if a determined and persistent effort is made, will add a few rungs to the social ladder and in time,--who knows?--may even have house parties to rival its contemporaries. Yale and Princeton. Naturally, austere dignity is assured because they will be House-parties. Emphasis on the capital aids immeasurably. In fact, the Dunster House party of 1933 may even rival the Lowell House High Table...
...reverted to his 1928 campaign theme: "The door of opportunity and. the ladder to leadership should oe free for every new generation. . . . This is the American system. . . . We have seldom tried even to name it. . . . Some have called it Liberalism but that term has become corrupted by political use. Some have called it Individualism. . . . By its enemies it has been called Capitalism and yet under its ideals capital is but an instrument, not a master. Some have called it Democracy, yet Democracy exists elsewhere under social ideals which do not embrace equality of opportunity...
This afternoon, however, I roused myself from bed, I get little sleep at night now what with Lowell House revelers welcoming the dawn, and book himself down the tower ladder, all beautifully set about with orange lights, and made my way to the court yard. After basking in the sunlight for a moment, I made my way about the Yard, which is grievously changed these days. I find, after careful research that tomorrow there will appear at Sever 11 at 2 o'clock Mr. Harry Irvine the actor. He will talk on an undetermined subject. He has played...