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...remember I was told before entering college--by a graduate of Brown, I think it was--that no man could go to Harvard and stay there four years without becoming a snob. This man, like Arthur Train, cited the choice maxim, "You can always tell a Harvard man, but you can't tell him anything," as proof of his allegation. As a neophyte I was considerably impressed by this statement, but managed somehow to reserve my judgment and entered the Freshman class in 1916. In all this time I had heard nothing of the high intellectual standards which prevail...
Except for the close student of Russian literature the chief interest of Maxim Gorky's notes and reminiscences of Tolstoy lies not in their biographical value but in their vivid and moving account of the effect made upon one great intellect by another. The short volume makes no pretense of introducing the newcomer to the life and character of Tolstoy; it is an intimate collection of personal experiences, conversations and impressions intended only to throw a little further light upon the somewhat obscure genius of a man whose works have already won him his place among the world's immortals...
...United States Government is the most inefficient organization in the country. I believe that only by pointing out the conditions in need of remedying can American and constitutional measures by taken to improve conditions. I firmly believe in the maxim, 'Put they house in order.' If we do not do so, matters will grow worse and cause revolts resulting in unconstitutional means of remedy. The Congressional Record has more humor than any comic paper; it is indicative of the inefficient methods of Congress which is 100 yeard behind American progress...
Lampy totters on the threshold of reform. Would it not be better to revert to the old maxim, "Nothing is new, nothing is true, and nothing matters?" and like the Pied Piper of Hamlin, lure with sweet music the rats and the vermin from their haunts, to be drowned in the scum of the Charles...
...that the unavoidable gulf between the younger and the older generation has been so wisely bridged. It is to be hoped that this cognizance of the undergraduate attitude will be fostered at Harvard and throughout the country. It is only during the past two or three generations that the maxim, "Children should be seen and not heard," has been discarded as a relic of past ages. Now we are going one step farther, in recognizing that youth has a positive contribution to make, a contribution which can not be neglected...