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...last words were of his wife: "Look after Agnes." But few have left behind them last words as filled with dignity and grace as those of an Indian chief named Crowfoot, leader of the Blackfoot Confederacy: "A little while and I will be gone from among you, whither I cannot tell. From nowhere we come, into nowhere we go. What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is a breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is as the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset...
...what the effect of his wife's inheritance will be, points out that the magazine is still in need of immediate cash, and believes-in any case-that one family should not permanently support it. Said Harrison: "I don't know yet how we can help. But whither I go, so goest the New Republic. Anyway, it's my wife's money." Added Mrs. Harrison reassuringly: "I love the New Republic dearly...
...opinion, in response to an invitation from public officials to state views on an important public question ... If the exercise by American citizens of their constitutional rights in expressing their honest views on public questions . . . can thus be used against them on a conspiracy charge in an antitrust suit, whither are we bound? ... If this procedure is to be consistently followed, many will hesitate to come before such public bodies and express views at variance with . . . the official policy . . . One of the surest ways ... to discourage communication between a citizen and his Government is to encourage such procedure...
...teacher and inspirer of youth that Bucky scores most heavily today. This year, as occasionally before, he is putting in two months at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the archbishopric of practical science in America, whither he came dragging a earful of models, tools, domes and other geometries from the University of Michigan. He calls himself a visiting professor of energetic geometry, and lectures to graduate students in architecture at M.I.T., as almost everywhere, with success. Since most teachers in America operate on narrow gauge and have strictly limited switching faculties in the world of cognition, Bucky is an inspiring...
Assuming that one can procure a likely lovely, the necessary appendage of the season, and a straw hat, and assuming that one tires of sitting on the banks of the Charles, the question of "whither" is a tepid...