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Sympathy for Failure. With a pathetically Spartan doggedness, he kept his letters on the impersonal plane of discussions of books, occasionally formulating a statement that now seems a remarkable presentiment of the basic theme of his subsequent work: "Solitude . . . tends to magnify one's ideas of individuality; it sharpens his sympathy for failure where fate has been abused ... it renders a man suspicious of the whole natural plan...
...this week it was evident that Congress could hardly bring itself to accept such Spartan cures as Banker Eccles recommended. With the new strains of the European Recovery Program still to be considered, the U.S. was bound to keep on sniffling for a long time...
...with six boys. Today Shawnigan Lake School has 100 boys and 27 masters. One-third of the pupils come from the western U.S. They are easily distinguishable when they return home by their habit of sirring adults and by their preference for "rugger" and cricket. Shawnigan Lake's spartan Tudor dormitories, school ties, daily chapel and iron discipline are still modeled after the England Lonsdale knew 35 years...
Across the Common, though, things were different. Radcliffe health authorities were dispensing little brown pills to all comers at the Student Health Center. Maintaining a Spartan attitude, they refused to put anybody...
...gathering would be almost routine to our correspondents in China. China is so big, its rail and road facilities so limited, that the news cannot be covered adequately without air travel. So far this year our bureaumen there have logged 61,000 air miles under, to say the least, Spartan conditions. Generally, they have to ride strapped to bucket seats and hounded by cargoes of currency, munitions, gasoline, melons, bedding, furs, mail, pork, wheat, etc. roped roof-high down the middle aisle. It gives you, they claim, that "living-on-borrowed-time feeling." Shanghai Bureau Chief William Gray...