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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leading article in the March Advocate is itself an illustration of the danger of too much conservatism in expressing opinions. What the writer of "Political Sentimentalists" says about Mr. Boyden in Europe is hardly open to attack--it is an ingenuously clear statement of fact. But what he says about college thinkers is dangerous, if not a little absurd. He objects, rightly enough, to sentimental reasoning and arguments not based on facts; but he goes farther and demands that a man should either have a thorough opinion reasoned from complete knowledge, or no opinion...
...ophile Delcassé started life as writer on foreign politics for Gambetta's "La Republique Française." He became a Deputy in 1889 Following his ejection from the Foreign office by the Kaiser, he was Minister of Marine until 1913; from 1913-1914 he was Ambassador to Russia; then, returned to the conduct of the Foreign Office for one brief year. He received the Legion of Honor in 1887 and Order of St. Andrew, Russia...
...force with objectives in New York, Boston, Montreal, Chicago, Cincinnati, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, as well as New Haven. And so far he has met little resistance. Newspaper comment is, curiously enough, rather favorable to the classics than otherwise, though the basis of favor is not always classical. One editorial writer insists, for instance, that Latin and Greek cannot be considered defunct so long as botanists use Latin names for plants and physicians rely upon the ancient tongues for titles for their drugs...
Literature is self-expression. It is up to the reader to extract the meaning, not up to the writer to offer it. If the author writes everything that pops into his head-or that is supposed to pop into the head of a given character-that is all that should be asked. Lucidity is no part of the auctorial task...
John Roach Straton is a well known clergyman and writer of the Calvary Baptist Church, New York City. Among his best known writings are "The Salvation of Society", and "The Menace of Immorality in Church and State...