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...shares of holding companies. According to Mr. Insull, such holding-company shares have risen to unreasonable heights in recent markets, For, as he points out, the utility business is always subject to regulation by public commissions in a way unknown to ordinary industrial concerns. Yet security speculators persist in looking upon utility-holding-company stocks in the same light as industrial shares...
Much has been said in the columns to the left of "The Windmill" concerning the status of the college newspaper, all in vain, too, because college administrators still persist in disciplining college editors who will insist upon getting into not water...
This is its "irony" This is the academic forest primeval, the murmuring pines and the hemolcks and the Seniors. Biologically, spiritually and humanly, it amounts to another prolonged dose of suicide. The myth of a liberal college is still supposed to persist despite this fact. Most of us shall leave Cambridge, sheepskin, honors, keys at also, we shall carry with us a smile for these hypocritic days: also a pretty little chip on our shoulders. If this be error and upon me proved . . . Irwin Rosen...
With the knowledge you have, how can you with any safe conscience put India in the British Commonwealth of Nations, when it is a fact that India is a harlot of the British Empire? I am certain that you will persist in calling the British Empire by the rosy name of "Commonwealth of Nations" and so oh and put India in it as one of the commonwealths. Well, I cannot prevent you from doing it, but I owe it to my conscience to protest against the prostitution of this word...
...futile and cruel but a sense of justice and tolerance toward races and nations not their own, which will deepen their love of humanity to the point where they will be willing to make sacrifices for the common good? In this method I feel we must persist, even after we have joined the World Court and the league and codified the laws. Isn't it our only way of making them permanent...