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...quickly and strawberries not yet here. There is still applesauce--and Dryden's plays at 9 o'clock in Sever 30 when Professor Tatlock lectures to English 39. And there is Moussorgsky at noon in Music 4d, when Professor Hill will probably play some of his Slavic although not slavish works in the Music Building...
Editor Randolph is conducting a campaign to teach Uncle Tom porters, slavish porters called George, to unionize...
Chains. Three mountainous acts labor and bring forth the mouselike aphorism: "I wonder if, after all, morality isn't just a matter of viewpoint? "A nice mother's heart is lacerated and a slavish father's pocketbook insultingly proffered when their son's wild oat comes to light. The heroine, backed by an open-space brother of the slavish father, carries the day for righteousness with a fine mixture of scorn, patience, idealism. Few of the multitudinous lines are unfamiliar, yet Author Jules Goodman insists on driving the lot home with dogged repetition. Helen Gahagan is courageous under her heavy...
...their own minds and the competency of their own natures, I suppose Montaigne to have been as striking an instance as could readily be found. He more than any other man cut loose the modern from the ancient world, and emancipated the human mind from a pedantic and slavish deference to the past. I do not mean that he did it consciously, but he had the courage to trust in his own instincts and to read the world with his own eyes-not in a Greek or Latin or Hebrew translation...
There are few, if any, Yale men who ask that Yale become a slavish imitator of Harvard. It is an open secret, however, that all the faculties at New Haven are not harmonious bodies, and it is well known that discontent is widespread among the alumni. This is not the place to discuss at length the causes of this want of harmony and of this discontent, but many believe that prominent among them is the lack of any central power to direct the course and guard the interests, not of this or of that department, but of the university...