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...into politics, it is not only convenient but it helps a man to think and act straight. We all rightly blame the public official who thinks simply in terms of popularity and wants, like the Vicar of Bray, to hold office at all costs. If, however, a man's livelihood and that of his children depends on holding office, it makes it very hard for him to decide to go against public opinion, no matter how wrong he may think...
...institution to train practising lawyers. It has long been an institution for the advancement of justice according to law through training those who will have to do with the administration of justice in such a way as to make their work effective for justice, not merely a means of livelihood...
...accepted honestly, wanting him even that way. They had grown together, honest friends, not exalted but not unhappy. He had amassed wealth. When Mary Glenn came home with her ineffectual husband and her fraying tissue of appearances, Brand had unobtrusively put them on the farm. It was a livelihood for Elliott Glenn, who was supinely grateful. For Mary it was a refuge, but also a torment. Her snobbery remained swollen while her pretences shriveled and her beauty went...
...established a dangerous precedent. For though Col. Mitchell's was the case of a wealthy man, another man might some day find himself, not only subjected to the orders of non-commissioned officers, but (being still under orders from the War Department) without any means of livelihood. The President waived Col. Mitchell's personal feelings. "Discipline is the whole basis of military training," he said. But he did not waive the question of fairness to some future culprit. He modified Col. Mitchell's sentence to the extent of granting him one-half of his monthly...
...they demanded. "The Harvard experiment, delightful as it may be as an academic departure," opined the New York Herald-Tribune, "is quite at variance with the workaday system which is sure to be imposed upon its beneficiaries as soon as they leave Cambridge and set out to earn their livelihood...