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...freedom of opinion, in war as in peace, more essentially for opinions that were in bad repute. I'wish I could remember who it was that warned the House of Commons against taking from the rattlesnake the rattle by which he gives warning of his approach and leaving the sting with which he kills. In suppressing opinion we take away the rattle. In failing to put into practice new institutions needed by the time we leave the sting. I inquire only if a man has fighting blood in that part of him which dwells among ideas. If so, shall...
Enter the Bulldog! With blood in his eye he invades the Stadium this afternoon to wipe out the sting of early season defeats and carry back to the elmbowered streets of New Haven the scalp of John Harvard. Anyone who knows the Bulldog of old knows that he is a fighter; that the words of the prophets are likely to be violently upset, and that the game is not won till the final shrill blast of the whistle...
...programs. He writes: "It is Germany who has made war upon the humanities and upon the human spirit. It is no time to urge the finer things of life while Germany pursues her international debauch of murder, outrage and plunder. Nothing but the lasting scorn of human society can sting that arrogant nation into a penitence that will make safe and good neighbors of them. For anyone, therefore, to demand polite consideration and financial support of anything German would be in ill accord with the rage of battle which his now stirring this nation in its very heart of hearts...
...idea of Harvard will approximate. But never do we realize just how far their derision will go until we read something of the nature of Mr. Carpenter's effort. This much we may say: The most of it is such arrant and superficial satire as to lose its sting. We can even laugh about it--especially the poor ignorant Westerner's difficulties with the Boston transit system, and the supposedly cutting remarks on Cambridge weather. Who, indeed, will go so far as to take exception at the latter? And, by the way, the supposed "sop" he throws...
Various of Mr. Norton's other remarks, inaccurate because founded on observations that were necessarily hasty and incomplete, are so amusing as to lose much of their sting. We are surprised to learn for example that "the touch of tradition holds sway, appearing at every turn." Tradition preserves the old and uncomfortable classroom benches and plank desks of a former age instead of replacing them with up-to-date equipment." And again: "The rickety old dormitories of a former century are kept unchanged, a tablet on the door of each room telling who has occupied the room for the past...