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...have a red carpet, "he said. "We'll strew orchids." But a whirlwind of mis fortune was shattering Tommy's dream...
After this initial mis-statement the CRIMSON goes on to quote from one of the books on display. The Negro and the Democratic Front, by James W. Ford. Because Mr. Ford is a 'Communist and because he has written a book expressing a communist viewpoint the CRIMSON suggests that ". . . it (the book) is hardly proper reading for Negro History Week, since it represents neither Negro history nor sympathies." The editorial ends with the suggestion that before a book is recommended it should be read. In other words the CRIMSON is suggesting that if this book had been read it would...
...protect individuals from mis-administration in the various agencies of government there are systems of checks and balances, provisions for appeal, review and redress, etc. The same end could not be brought about by making the authority of any agency conditional on the faith the citizen has in it. Similarly, the remedy for the miscarriage of justice is not a principle which would undercut the implementation of justice altogether in making the defendant the judge of the competence of the court. Rather, it is a revision of the procedures of trial and investigation in which miscarriages of justice occur...
...senior honors tutorial. The whole question of course reduction will undoubtedly be re-examined now by both the departments and the forthcoming Committee on Special Standing; extension of the privilege to the junior year, however, would be unwise. Research is exciting, but in inexperienced hands will too often be mis-directed. Even under close tutorial supervision, a junior does not possess the background of formal study necessary to make research worthwhile. And because a students is first exposed to individual tutorial in the junior year, no judgment should be made until then of his ability to work under the responsibility...
...pretty tame. Jude saves a young-girl from making a fool of herself over an old man by doing her portrait as if she had drowned herself, like the old man's previous young wife; Jude flirts gingerly with sex when he meets a blowsy, redheaded tavern mis tress whose face just fits the Rubens-like nude canvas which he almost never dis plays. Closest he comes to trouble is when a sheriff mistakenly nabs him as Ruby Lambkin, a highwayman whose legendary misdeeds run a counterpoint through the novel and, off & on, in gentle Jude's wistful...