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...duties adequately. Neither the good clerks nor Mr. Chase's good teachers have or can have any answers or teaching on our conspicuous social failures, such as war and depression. The general inadequacy of all the teaching yet offered to the world on such subjects illustrates painfully how much vigour and originality and labour must be brought to bear...
...naval science are many and diverse. There are some who oppose them on philosophical grounds, who object to the fact that a jingo spirit is kept in strength and energy by the intrusion of professional soldiers into college classrooms. This view they have supported with great insight and appropriate vigour, but its quarrel with the present is so fundamental that their efforts have not met with much success. There is, however, no necessity to confine the attack on military and naval science to these grounds. Two other arguments have been presented; no answer to either of them has been advanced...
...applying for a license to serve malt beverages in the house dining halls, the University has acted with exemplary promptness and vigour. What the Massachusetts legislature's twenty-one year age limit had left possible, the University has done. But the principal value of its action will be in bringing to a head, and in making efficient, the opposition which exists to the twenty-one year limit itself...
Whether or not an applicant is an all-round-man as typified in college novels, makes little difference to us," Professor Matthiessen said. "Participation in activities' is not essential and the requirement of 'physical vigour' does not necessarily include playing on a team...
There is an almost Miltonian strength to the book though in depth of perception and vigour of treatment it is perhaps best to be compared to the contemporary poet, Robinson Jeffers. Like Jeffers, Morrison comes to terms with the modern environment. He neither apologizes to the Great God Machine for his place as a poet in the world of science nor does he treat the modern telephone and automobile and cigarette as essentially unpoetic. They merely exist as parts of the setting for his human drama...