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...there are gods many, so are there promises many. Beware, O ye Uncs., Occs., Specs, and Ad Libs., how ye seek after "wizards that peep and that mutter." Runs the proverb, "Facile est descensu--" and the makers of the Tower of Babel could not reverse it. Brilliant as the new light may be, make sure that it is not a will o the wisp whose lustre increases with the approach of death...
...material success? In that sense of the word, such a measurement by themselves, that is by one another,--a guiding of conduct by the customary standards, by what the market place will tolerate, may be wise. Average honesty may be a good standard for mere money-making. The old proverb says that honesty is the best policy--meaning that it is best for purely business reasons. It may be or it may not. It may be so as a rule, but not always. A man who is honest solely because it is the best business policy is honest only from...
There is an old French proverb something to the effect "if youth but knew, or age could do", which describes perhaps better than anything else the difficulties with any sort of institutional education, however perfect. By assembling and publishing such a bibliography as we have suggested, the University could, without much expense, provide a method for prolonging the applied study of the undergraduate and combining with it the later developed tastes and interests of the graduate...
...impartial judgement are taboo in the United States Senate. Pelletier's attorney confesses that he "overlooked a point"--Senator Robinson wants to know who wrote the treaty. Nothing could be more irrelevant, to judge anything logically does not necessitate knowing who wrote it. This tempts us to paraphrase a proverb and say "Suspicion begins at home". We read that in the "Council of wise men" Senator Watson had an audience of six Senators when speaking on how we are going the way of empire. Considering Haiti and Samoa, this danger at least is not to be disregarded...
There is a French proverb which says you cannot both join in a procession and look out of the window. But two weeks ago when the band was parading through the Yard, recruiting for the march to the Stadium before the Princeton game, there were some undergraduates who seemed unable to decide which was the better course. In the end, a considerable number were satisfied with leaning their shirt-sleeved elbows on the window-sill--and looking on. No matter what is going on, there are always watchers from the window--and there will be some this afternoon when...