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...chiefly to a speech by Speaker Garner. He had held aloof the week before when a "soak-the-rich" coalition knocked out the Sales Tax and left the house groggy and disorganized. The Press howled its disapproval. Securities declined. Government bonds dropped. Was the House, after all. going to shirk the duty of increasing taxation sufficiently to balance the Budget? It appeared possible until Speaker Garner in his old grey suit went down into the well and began to address the House...
Within these limits, the preceptorial system will have to find its place, in order that the slow man will not be crowded with work, or the bright man allowed to shirk. Even where little independent reading is done, it will help in choosing fields of concentration. It is to be hoped that the system will be allowed to grow slowly, and to be considered in the main as a privilege, and not either a right or a rule...
Meanwhile, the two-hours conference system, with four two-hours periods a day, involves heavy work for the student. Nobody can loaf. Nobody can shirk. Nobody can bluff. However, the two-hours conference system has not scared away students from Rollins, widely advertised though that system has been. This year's enrollment shows a twenty per cent increase, and we have a waiting list...
Chatting over a cocktail His Majesty envisioned himself "working away in some big American automobile factory . . . like the Tsar Peter . . . who traveled incognito all over Europe and who did not shirk from taking a job in Dutch and English shipyards to get acquainted with the latest developments...
...guess I'll have to shirk...