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...ensemble so good-especially when the whole business is a labor of love and enthusiasm, done "on one's own time", so to say, in the intervals of a busy college life. From a serious point of view, some of it is hasty and superficial; an occasional vulgar note hardly lifts the average...
Worthy citizens who have always proclaimed the superiority of America in all things, and as an example pointed with pride to the infinitely more wide-awake progressiveness of "our press", will step back aghast at reports from the battle of the papers now raging in London. To the vulgar eye, that threadhare old scarcecrow, "British Conservatism," has pulled himself together and is working off the effects of a violent "jag." The shades of Addison and Steele, returned to earth, if they survived half a day in London traffic, would shrink away in horror at the prospect of the press...
Would it not be possible for such candidates to conduct campaigns; not necessarily anything loud or too vulgar for the delicate Harvard stomach, but by simple, direct appeals for the support of their classmaes. It seems to me that a man ought to be willing to talk in his own behalf if he is honestly convinced of his fitness for the office, and if he is not convinced he has no business to be running. W. C. SMITH JR. '25 December...
...zone of reverie and reflection that naturally intervenes between work and slumber. . . . The one who invented the crawly term of "lounge-lizard" is no friend of mine. He has laid an undeserved curse upon a great and worthy company of those who may properly prefer healing relaxation to this vulgar virility of modern days. N. A. FUESSLE in the Outlook
...preparation for a better grasp of political situations. Since only the speeches of National Committee Chairmen seem to have any direct effect on the choice of candidates and the election generally, all other discussion is of the "dud" variety. Mr. Oettinger has grown up unhampered by the rather vulgar experience of open discussion; he seems annoyed that others should indulge in so common a pastime when there are plenty of experienced politicians who could do it all for them, and so much more conventionally...