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...specific program, but upon the study of life and social processes. Militant liberalism rarely thrives unless it is given the impetus of hard times or a favorable shift in ordinary economic conditions. And the prosperous condition of industry in general has practically extinguished any lingering sparks of Promethean vigor at present...
...chief Rhinelander attorney is Isaac Newton Mills. He was born in Connecticut in 1851; in school he was known as a wrangler; at Amherst he had a reputation for vigor, for honesty, for plain speech. Admitted to the bar in 1876, he began to practice law in Mount Vernon and Manhattan. For six years he was an appellate justice...
With the alarmist, whither-are-we drifting attitude of Mr. Blake toward your recent editorials, may I take issue? Your editorial page and in fact the whole paper has shown more alertness, vigor, and originality than at any time in the past six years. Mr. Blake must be accustomed to rather dull and obvious editorial fare so to condemn intelligent journalism exercising a legitimate right of leadership. Very truly yours, L. B. Young...
...think, quite a new epoch in college journalism. I have always looked through the CRIMSON in the morning. Now I read it especially its editorials with care and respect. Of course I do not always agree in details. But I rejoice and I congratulate the College on its vigor, the restraint and fairness with which the CRIMSON is now conducted in this and on other issues...
...Kaiser greeted me vivaciously and seemed possessed of all his pre-War vigor. . . . His handsome white beard becomes him well, and he walks with the erect alertness of a man in good health He still retains all of his old dignity. It is ridiculous to picture him as 'the woodsman of Doom.' He is not the sort of man to chop down trees...