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Professor Irving Babbitt '89, speaking at a meeting of the Liberal Club last night on "True and Sham Liberals", emphasised the point that the struggle of today was not between conservatives and liberals, but between true and sham liberals. He defined the true liberal as a man who believes in fair play, moderation, and compromise; the sham liberal as a man who puts forward secondary virtues as primary ones. For instance he professes sincerity, open-mindedness, and a forward looking spirit; whereas the actual questions are those of right or wrong, selection, and real imaginary questions. Therefore...
Irving Babbitt '89, professor of French Literature at the University and a literary critic of authority, will speak to the Liberal Club on "Sham and True Liberals" at the Cranford Club tonight at 6 o'clock...
Irving Babbitt '89, Professor of French Literature, will be the lecturer at a meeting of the Club in the rooms of the Cranford Club on March 31, when he will use as his subject, "Sham and True Liberals." At the next meeting, on April 7, Harold Scott will speak. He is a wellknown engineer and industrial efficiency expert; his lecture will have a technical trend. The Liberal Club is planning to have him lecture at M. I. T. also...
...here for men to seek. It admits openly the principle which governs it; but it is precisely that principle which has preserved Harvard as the alma mater of leaders among men. To be a Harvard man does not mean that one has gone through that fraternizing period of sham democracy in which cane rushes and greased poles have stimulated the spirit of brother-hood; but it does mean a respect for scholarship, for the right of the individual to assert himself in his own way; a feeling for that continuity of achievement, free of "isms", which passes over into progress...
...show will be brought to a conclusion by a monster sham battle between the two batteries, in which the tanks will also be employed. Detachments of cavaltry, motorized units, motor scouts and machine guns, and both light and heavy guns will be used in the action...