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...from people things they ought to know." Because of this, said the apostle of the left-wing Socialism known as Bevanism, Britons "are no longer capable of a right assessment of the international scene . . . For the first three or four years after the war, the British people were comparatively sane. Now they are practically insane...
Also important, however, is the planning by the College of a sane schedule for Harvard football, a schedule which has helped to keep Ivy League standards above the commercialism prevalent in intercollegiate athletics today. By holding to its standards, the League has fostered good, competitive football. This year, no more than two touchdowns separated Harvard from any of its Ivy opponents. For this reason, the planned Ivy Group takes on a special importance as it will provide a continued opportunity for hard, spirited, but still amateur games. It is only under the proposed system that Ivy football will be able...
...things in your magazine have been more sane than the very accurate appraisal you give [Sept. 21] of the role of the late Justice Holmes as an opponent of order. The ridiculous pedestal on which modern skeptics and relativists...have put the master of "humbug" deserves to be toppled...
Actor Farrar in his quiet way preserves a sense of sane reality at the center of what might easily have been a silly whodunit. Nadia Gray is always credible, and lovely to look at in one or two heart-catching little love scenes. In short, at a game where overstatement is all too easy, the British tradition of playing it down is pretty good cinematic cricket...
...killed Sir Robert's secretary by mistake. The defense pleaded that M'Naghten was under the delusion that he had a grievance against Sir Robert. M'Naghten was found insane, and acquitted. Shortly afterwards, the famous Rules were formulated; they provide that "every man is presumed sane, and to possess a sufficient degree of reason to be responsible for his crimes": to prove otherwise, it must be shown that at the time of the crime he did not "know the nature or quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that...