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...demanding some share in the control of the working day at the college. They are questioning not only the requirements of subjects, but the methods of teaching. The time is soon coming when innovations in the curriculum will not be imposed upon them without conferences, when they will retort with "tu quoque" to the professor, "if we study badly it is because we are taught badly," "If we have no intellectual enthusiasm it is because your teaching is mechanized," "If we despise research it because of your own attitude toward it," "If some of you gentlemen with Ph.D.'s showed...
...Retort. Chancellor Churchill defended himself roundly: "Betting is certainly an optional luxury and therefore a fit object for taxation. ... It is estimated that £6,000,000 per year may be derived from this source. . . . The proposed tax does not alter the legality of betting. . . . Credit and racecourse betting are legal, while street betting is illegal?although in practice everyone can bet with impunity. In that sense, there is one law for the rich and another for the poor. . . . The proposed tax is but a recognition of a condition of so-called vice from which the Exchequer has already received...
This is not merely teachers' talk about bad boys whose ways annoy them. The boys themselves are talking in the same tone about the same problem. When the Harvard Crimson says too much emphasis is given to college football, scoffers might retort, "There is a reason." But there was last December a meeting of college editors and Chairmen of campus organizations of Harvard, Princeton, Bowdoin, Williams, Dartmouth, and Wesleyan which pointed out the evils of the situation and made shrewd suggestions for remedial rules. When announcement was made that Yale alone took $626,194 in football receipts in the single...
...Irritated, the usually suave, immaculate Ogden Mills walked across to Mr. Rankin, pointed out that a delay would prevent his delegation (New York) from getting home for Easter. The Mississippian was obdurate, sniffy. Flashed Ogden Mills: "Its a damn mean thing to hold 20 men here!" Back came the retort: "Get over on your own side. You have no right here. You can't insult me in that manner. . . you dirty, contemptible scoundrel!" Fist?swinging arms?whites of eyes? . . . Members rushed to separate the pair. After several minutes order was regained. Peacefully, the impeachment was overwhelmingly voted...
...clock this morning he is going to visit Economics 2 in Harvard 1, where he will discuss the problems of money and banking in England that were caused by the wandering around Europe of Corsica's most famous citizen. It is only fair for me to make the retort courteous to my most illustrious disciple and vagabond with...