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...them, but there are many on the other hand of widely differing gifts who will find in the legal profession all the opportunities they can ask. Any man who has a clear head, willingness to work hard, courage to meet men in controversy, and if possible an even temper, can make himself a lawyer. To it as to many other things applies the homely proverb "It's dogged that does it". Eloquence, a retentive memory, a quick wit, a sense of humor, a good voice and good presence all help, but men have succeeded in the law who had none...
...Latin requirements certainly explain why many sub-Freshmen prefer to hole out on the New Haven green rather than hazard the artificial bunkers and traps which guard the course to Cambridge. If we are willing to temper the wind to the handicapped lamb, let us by all means knock down a few bars and allow the relieving breeze to guide him gently to us; if not, why indulge in poignant grief at our own exclusiveness? Let us be honest with ourselves and others--let us retain our artificial barriers and glory in the fact that we have them in order...
...Conway Wingfield and E. E. Olive divide the leading honors of the production in their roles of the opposing leaders. As Annie Roberts, the martyred wife. Ingrid Dillon brings out sweetness and charm to temper a harrowing part which could easily have been overdone. Margaret Pitt plays slightly out of the directness and sincerity of the other characters treading dangerously near the melodramatic in her Madge Thomas, the head-strong working girl...
...solution of her financial and industrial difficulties. The financing and rehabilitation of industry are so difficult, and the future is so obscure, that it would be rash for anybody to say what the outcome will be; but in the most vital factor, which is the temper, industry, and integrity of the people in these fundamental respects, I saw a great deal of ground for optimism. If it is true, and I believe it is, that the essential thing is that the people should show resolution to work hard and pay their debts, then the future of France...
...translation of M. Rostchakovsky's Open Letter to the Russian People is something of an achievement. It is such evidence as this that will enable the world at large to have some understanding of the temper of the Russian people and may help to make it realize that Russia intends to settle her own internal problems without foreign interference. Set down in black and white this seems a logical enough desire, but most of the world's statesmen have regarded it as an unwarrantable assumption...