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...determination must be exercised to carry through midyear resolutions now that the dreaded fortnight is over and no impulse remains for prompt action. Widener Library has become a familiar rendezvous for many, for the first time; but its advantages are soon forgotten after examinations, and the faults, though few, linger in the memory...
...universal law--O bearer of lux of veritas (light and truth!)--and I will spend the rest of my days repaying you with more than half of my many kingdoms. This you could give--and yet still extra-curriculum is where the real lux and the real veritas linger. "Give me wherewith to stand and I will move the world." So we cry unto you; but as a University you will not hear--you nod wisely, and build your requirements for the average man who does not exist, and think not at all of creating that place on which...
...Linger we thus for a moment, palely expectant...
...justice. In one sense the cause of any individual college, or even of a group of colleges, is undoubtedly an individual or a group interest. But these are perilous days, in which little is apparent in the public prints beyond brute passions and rampant selfishness. The World may well linger over every manifestation of the more human forces in civilization. --New York Times...
...sermon of patience has been often preached. Moreover it has been the man in uniform who has generally been in the pulpit. He has calmly told us to bide our time and then has left for France, left for the land of mud and atrocities, while we must linger over our comparative literature and compose our souls in peace...