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...Senior Council, here by tender our resignation, to take effect at once...
...limit which happens to be under that of the average undergraduate, has apparently given the student a legal right to drive a car. Therefore in forbidding automobiles at Princeton on the count of reckless driving, the university appears to take the stand that pursuit of learning and not tender years is responsible for accidents. Such perverse application of results of modern education is hardly plausible, even from a rigid dean...
...that may be his lack, for in what he could understand he was struck by elements of really great drama and penetrating insight. The difficulties of language are as smoke surrounding a flame. Pirandello's thought, tinged with a profound yet tender pessimism, is in the truly grand manner. If he fails, it is only because he has attempted too much. And again his failure may be those of the translator and reviewer...
...timid souls of the gentlemen who are engineering the present day reforms. Crushed by the evident and inevitable, they rise in their might and throw off the onus and destroy it utterly, stifling it on the front pages of the tabloids, and all lest some spirit now tender and sweet as the violet become aware of these things and grow up into a cauliflower, or something else far removed from violets...
...education. Though, to put it mildly, this is an exaggeration, the fact remains that for the Student Vagabond at least, the week-end offers a bright and golden opportunity from wanderings from the strictly academic pastures into regions where, to continue the metaphor, he may feed upon the more tender verdure of the art galleries and drink of the sparkling streams of music...