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...point in the deadlock at which they were merely playing into the hands of the La Follette Magnus Johnson Brookhart radical element. ... I decided that the inevitable split between the conservative and radical members of the Senate had come, and that it was time for me to obey my profoundest instincts and convictions and to part company for a time with other Democratic Senators. ... As far as I am concerned, it might as well be understood now as later that no boat has room enough to hold Senator La Follette and his adherents...
...dead feel that they were sacrificed--Rupert Hughes, for example, who acted without a moment's hesitation? To us who look with reverence upon our living, and with love upon our dead soldiers, it might seem that the profoundest answer to all these questions has been given by another French soldier, himself no mean artist, who gave up his young life for his country last year. "If fate claims the best," he wrote to his mother, "it is not unjust. The less noble who survive will thereby be made better. . . .Nothing is lost. . . The true death would be to live...
...Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life," says Auerbach. It does a great deal more than that: it broadens and deepens the souls of men; it makes them see beauties in life and its emotions which the profoundest philosophy and even the finest poetry cannot call forth. And the extraordinary opportunities for musical culture which are afforded in this vicinity have always been one of the great assets of the University...
...caused by the remarkable sweetness and cheerfulness of his life and poetry--that of being in an eminently practical country the first conspicuous representative of the literary life. Mr. Higginson's estimate of Longfellow's literary position is particularly well considered. "While Longfellow will never be read for the profoundest stirring," he says, "he will always be read for invigoration, for comfort, for content...
...right to expect. It is that the faculty will through the committee give some definite idea of what its policy in the matter of college sports at present is or is likely to become in the future. As to this question at present the college is in the profoundest doubt. The passage on the subject in President Eliot's recent annual report is far from satisfactory as an expression of such policy. It is in many points vague and noncommttal, and can fairly in part be termed a special pleading. It criticizes without suggesting a remedy, unless by implication...