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...last Saturday's CRIMSON an article appeared by Mr. Virgil Thomson purposing to be a criticism of a recent concert given by the Pierian Sodality Orchestra. It is generally supposed that the word criticism means an expression of one's views from an unbiased and impersonal standpoint--especially in its application to concerts, paintings, and the like. Certainly none but a most unmitigated neurastheniac would attempt to apply this somewhat broad definition to Mr. Thomson's effort of Saturday last. That there was something radically unfair about his "criticism" and his presumptuous attitude the following three points will, I hope...
...period of his speech, he said : "We have unanimously decided that the form of the German State is not to be altered." (Loud, ironical laughter.) Continued the Chancellor: "This matter is really too serious for me to adopt the standpoint of those who laugh about...
...shame that they can't let me shuffle along in my own way for a few years more. As you know, from the standpoint of the church in convicting me for heresy they are sending me to Hell...
...course, you can't please everyone, but I sincerely hope you will "live long and prosper." If you are in any danger at all from the standpoint of the contents of the magazine, it is that of letting top much editorial opinion creep in under the guise of statement of fact. It is impossible, of course, and would be undesirable, to keep out altogether some indication of the trend of the editorial mind, but especially in those departments which retail current news, as distinguished from those which include criticism, I think you ought to be very careful that...
...striking antithesis former Justice Clark of the Supreme Court said: "We must choose now between Christ and Mars." In his lecture at Brown he pictured all too vividly the inevitable horrors of a future war; and he discussed the problem from a unique standpoint. His thesis in brief is that Christianity will never survive the next war; as if more reasons were needed to prove that such a conflict must be avoided at all cost...