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...then, do not the colleges renounce the impossible and start anew on more solid ground? Implicit in the democratic idea is found a redeeming paradox in numbers. American colleges throw open to every youth a real equality of opportunity to carry his own development to the highest point of which he is capable. And so far as American colleges provide sufficient elasticity in their systems--a striking tendency of the last few years; so far as they take care in this way not to superimpose upon the exceptional student an equality of condition with the majority: just so far will...
Sober pinch-pennies derive great pleasure from betting-they are indeed the most daring fellows alive, for they hazard their careful stake on the expected and the expected rarely occurs. Your extravagant defrauds himself of excitement. He favors unlikelihoods, only to see them crop up at every turn. This paradox of the wise man and his penny is sustained by the fact that it frequently proves untrue. For instance, conservative students of tennis fully expected William T. Tilden to win the National Tennis Championship which was decided last week at Forest Hills. Perceiving a balance draw, with Tilden and Williams...
...world loves a lover and all Spain loves a toreador, and what would be the use of toreadors if bulls could no longer be fought ? Yet, last week, the Iberian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals came into being for the express purpose of warring on bullfighting. Paradox upon paradox, the Society was headed by no less a person than H.R.H. The Prince of Asturias, the Heir-Apparent, and T.R.H. The Infantas Beatrix and Maria Cristina...
...paradox, there is always an explanation. Little more than 19 years ago, Princess Victoria of Battenberg (now called Mountbatten) was married to King Alfonso. The young Queen, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria of Britain, it is true, changed her religion, but she did not change her outlook on life so easily. To Madrid she carried a number of Anglo-Saxon prejudices that clashed sharply with Romance culture. If Spanish society did not please her, she closed her eyes to it. If certain grandees by their empty verbosity bored her, she heard as little as possible. But from bullfighting there...
Even before I came hear I heard great talk of the untrammeled freedom of thought and opinion which prevails at Dravrah. I find the report as fully justified as even Sarakhan, the Philosopher, could demand. But with what appalling consequences! Paradox thought it be, a too generous freedom may take away incentive and make slaves of the minds it seeks to liberate. So it seems to be among these young men. They are permitted to think with unbridled license of everything; so they think of nothing. Their much vaunted liberties have acted like the juice of the poppy plant...