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...boom had suffered most severely of all Presidential booms because of the disclosure that Mr. McAdoo and his firm had received $150,000 in retainers from Mr. Do-heny. Some Republicans openly celebrated his political funeral. Senator Moses of New Hampshire, asked about McAdoo and oil replied: "De mortuis nil nisi bonum...
With Mr. McAdoo's endorsement the delegates to the meeting adopted the slogan, "Back to honesty." The McAdoo men gave their leader a clean bill of health. Their unanimous opinion was "Nil nisi bonum...
...psychological document it is of some importance?it should certainly impress on anybody who reads it the importance of proper sex education for the young? but the average reader will find it extremely tedious?a tedium only occasionally relieved by passages of unconscious humor. "Excitement" in it is nil and it is difficult to imagine any one obtaining even a modicum of sensuous delight from its gray pages. The only other lesson it seems to teach is that life in the German family it describes must have been ineffably dull. A Young Girl's Diary has been approved...
...must face when the four years' course is ended. The usual student in the American college is lamentably minus as a coming citizen. He does not read the newspapers. His current knowledge is of the slightest, his interest in the questions of the day, save in rare instances, is nil. In backward China, in progressive Japan, in France and Germany, the student must be reckoned with in public matters. Here he cuts no figure at all. There is too much "Tom Brown at Oxford" and too much of the "Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green" in his composition. The result...
...together, these two sets of statistics give rise to all sorts of tempting, generalities. Is Harvard abandoning the Law School to the Philistine and sending forth its alumni to conquer the field of education? Or is the undergraduate section of the College going back to the days of the "nil admirari", when education meant refinement and polish and a carefully aurtured lack of interest in anything that meant applied study? Either conclusion can be derived from these facts...