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...this argument the lawyer-moralist has a stern retort. First of all, punishment is an administrative necessity-an indispensable safeguard of civilized society. More important, "to condemn and punish offenders, to insist on their responsibility ... is a phase of ... bracing strictness which has an irreplaceable educational value . . . With any individual, simply to accept his temperament and character as they are, and his impulses as they come, is death to moral progress . . . It is also disastrous to lead [a delinquent] to believe that he is more sinned against than sinning and to imply that strenuous moral effort on his own part...
...live up to the best traditions of the theater and to avoid any of that political thing in casting. But when you get somebody who may cause a lot of bad publicity for your program, you have to be a little careful-it's an ordinary business safeguard...
...experiment was referred to by Ibsen as "a chance to acquire a safeguard to your health while assisting in a test valuable to your country...
List week the trustees of Ohio State University took it upon themselves to safeguard the nation's security. Giving to Ohio's president, Dr. Howard Bevis, the power to bar any speaker from addressing students an campus, they have shut their gates against all those "who seek to undermine the basic liberties of America...
...dreams how much skullduggery and crookedness we've unearthed in our investigation of the old bill." Teague said. "The only way to safeguard the program is to have the veterans police it themselves. This they will do only if they share the cost...