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...speak at all. "I offer to my successor any help or counsel I can give," he went on, and the House cheered his magnanimity to new War Secretary Oliver Stanley. There may have been an ironic rebuke to the Prime Minister in his declaration: "I did not select my colleagues [in the War Office] because they were complacent or supinely acquiescent. I selected the strongest men I could find, and I respected them most when they were most outspoken in Council. ... It did not occur to me to consider that we were making the Army too democratic to fight...
...final question was, "The President's role in a warring world is that of (a) an active (or passive, i.e. 'available') arbitrator or (b) an active (or passive) isolationist. Select one, or suggest an alternative, and defend. Five minutes...
...years ago a tall, bald, shambling magazine editor, Ralph McAllister Ingersoll, got a yen to enter that select company. What he had in mind was a new kind of paper: an evening picture-paper with not so big a page as present tabloids, with news digested and departmentalized somewhat as in TIME. Selling such a paper at 5? a copy, Editor Ingersoll figured he could break even with a circulation of 190,000, but it would cost $1,500,000 to launch his daily...
...final arguments of the Ames Competition of the Law School clubs next Thursday night will set the stage for the first appearance of a U. S. Supreme Court Justice as a judge in the competition; when Justice Owen J. Roberts will help to select the ablest law team in the Senior Class of the Law School...
...select few on the team are not the only ones who should have the privilege of first class instruction from a Harvard coach. There are also the 568 petitioners who may invade the mountains sometime this winter and try their feet at running trails which are too fast for them. These are the ones who endanger themselves and everybody else in the vicinity because most of them possess a sad lack of training in skiing technique. Therefore it is plain that the coach must not only be expert but available to large numbers of people. Fortunately skiing lends itself...