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...know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before...
...Whilst I found myself in warm sympathy with Professor Kohr's attack upon blind conformity, in his letters published in the CRIMSON for February 5, I was, I admit, startled by his dictum on democracy. I had hitherto accepted Lincoln's definition of democracy as government by the people; Professor Kohr tells us that "the most characteristic feature of democracy is not cooperation but opposition." Freedom to oppose is indeed of the essence of democracy, but to regard the government as something set up by the popular vote which it is then the main duty of the people to oppose...
From Stub to Monument. Ever since the Star was started in 1852, it has kept its eye on Washington. The paper, said its first editorial, "will preserve a strict neutrality, and whilst maintaining a fearless spirit of independence, will be devoted in an especial manner to the local interests of the beautiful city which bears the honored name of Washington." Since the Washington Monument was just a stub then, it set out to raise money to complete it. The Star campaigned for street numbers on houses, modern jails, a closed sewage system and through railroads, and even bested the Pennsylvania...
...human being is not now allowed vainly to call for death, whilst the flesh is pinched off his quivering limbs...
...wound, but as soon as their backs were turned, off he hobbled on another series of charges. "At the critical moment," says the citation, "amidst an inferno of enemy machine-gun and mortar fire . . . Speakman led a final charge to clear the crest of the hill and hold it whilst the remainder of his company withdrew." When his grenades ran out, he threw stones...