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TIME'S account of the death and funeral of Calvin Coolidge was a masterpiece of reportorial English-clear, trenchant and accurate...
Economic considerations aside, there is ample room at Harvard for a monthly review capable of directing trenchant and impartial criticism at the organizations and policies of the University. The closer the Critic adheres to its announced intentions in that regard, the better it wil serve the University. The CRIMSON is glad to welcome the Critic to the field of undergraduate publications, and wish it good success on its enterprise...
...which made her is gone, for she appears only thrice a week, and has lost her trim slimness. She has time before each issue to wipe her spectacles, arrange the knot on the back of her head a bit more neatly, and write a reflective editorial full of concise, trenchant phrases about poetry and politics, or war debts. It is thus that she has lost caste. There was a day, in the years gone by, when she hurriedly threw aside her books, dashed off a splendid bit about riots or the Vagabond himself, and sent it to the printer without...
...resignations of Viscount Snowden and two of his colleagues from the British Nationalist government could hardly have been unexpected after the results of the Ottawa Conference had demonstrated the control which the Conservative party possesses and proposes to exercise over the nation's tariff policy. In a trenchant and bitter denunciation of the Conservatives, Viscount Snowden has warned Prime Minister MacDonald that he has become little more than a "cat's paw" to the high tariff group, that such a policy is likely to be fatal to British trade and to international peace, and that the crisis for which...
Those who heard Norman Thomas speak in the Winthrop Common Room yesterday enjoyed the refreshing spectacle of a man who adds to trenchant criticism of the existing economic situation a concrete plan to remedy it. Men who are uncompromisingly at odds with the essential factors of a system are not usually capable of such objectivity and moderation as Mr. Thomas displayed. The candor with which he revealed his pessismism about the present social apathy of the American people, combined with a hope of organizing them before it is too late, makes one feel that Socialism, whatever its other merits...