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...believe they can still acquire it. But not by drawing up codes of ethics that most of their fellows laugh at, as a Congressman laughs at a gentleman. . . . There are dozens of papers in the U. S. that already show a determined effort to get out of the old slough. Any managing editor in the land, if he has the will, can carry his paper with them. ... Is the paper trifling, ill-informed, petty and unfair? Is its news full of transparent absurdities? Are its editorials ignorant and without sense? Is it written in blowsy slipshod English, full of cliches...
...however, from that generality to the welter of the specific, to fundamentalism is one's own family, to mental astigmatism in the leaders of one's own country, to freedom of speech at a university, human fallibility is almost overwhelming; and all but the stoutest hearts wallow in a slough of despond. The transcendentalist had the happy faculty, which we unfortunately have not, of soaring over this mire from the cradle to the clouds...
Every nine months or so, a dirigible has to slough its outer skin. Every year the interior gasbags have to be removed. Between renewals both the inner and outer fabric system have to be constantly repaired. The Airship Construction Co. of Detroit, said to be backed by Edsel Ford, is experimenting with a new form of covering and interior cell, to be built entirely of very thin sheet duralumin, not more than one one-hundredth of an inch in thickness...
...early to make any predictions as to the ability Coach Stevens and his assistants will show in rescuing the Harvard crew system from the slough of Despond and putting it on a winning basis. That they will have some difficulty at least in co-ordinating their methods with that of the other coaches and in establishing a thorough system resulting in immediate victories seems evident. But the undergraduate has no right to demand immediate and constant victories. Winning systems are not built...
...sincerely trust that the great effort made during the War, which cost us all so dearly, is not going to be thrown away, not going to be cast into the slough of discord and ill-will...