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Thus stamped with tacit Hitler approval were such Streicher tongue-waggings...
William Faulkner's latest fairy tale about the human race contains no bogeyman, but as usual his protagonists have their hearts in the wrong place. Tacit thesis of Pylon is that airmen are not people, but a race apart, unaccountable, sinister, inhuman. "They ain't human like us. . . . Crash one and it ain't even blood when you haul him out; it's cylinder oil the same as in the crankcase." Though Author Faulkner obviously admires his creatures, they will seem to most readers less god-like than monstrous. But those who can manage to skip...
Contributions signed by graduates in this week's Alumni Bulletin are striking in the similarity of their criticism, tacit or explicit, of the broad general policy of the University at present. Three letters condemn utilitarianism that leads to the abolition of Latin as a requirement for an A.B. degree, while an article by Moses W. Ware '02, effectively points out how essential for even so "utilitarian" a field as business is the elusive quality of culture or balance which is the highest aim of a college education...
...call any man who is still very much alive a "character" or a "venerable figure" is a tacit admission that he is getting old; but those who know Dr. Worcester, would certainly deny that this had any significance beyond mere numerical years. Appointed to the Chair of Hygiene at seventy, when most people are thinking of retirement, if they have not yet achieved that degree of bliss, he has in these ten years shown no lessening of his energy...
...that no judgment had been reached on the fundamental question--the right of Congress to delegate its legislative powers. The basis of the verdict was merely the technical flaw of failing to define adequately the extent of the powers conferred upon the President. Mr. Hughes even made the tacit admission that control of oil production is in itself valuable and even made the tacit admission that control of oil production is in itself valuable and even necessary. Thus it is evident that the long- a waited test case has not yet arisen...