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Senate against Ira Hector's unprincipled monopolies and graft, was obliged to admit that they were perhaps the necessary evils of Bourgeois-Liberal Studentism, his own philosophyremark of Ira Hector's own): one might have to lick his boots, but needn't praise the flavor.
"Now, you're too hard on Uncle Ira," Anastasia chided. "You must try to understand him."
Max sniffed, but it was remarkable how the girl calmed his indignation with a pat on the knee. "So he's got a heart of gold," he complained with a smile. "Like Dean Midas he has!"
"He's more generous than you think," Anastasia said. "But he's so afraid somebody will make fun of it, or take advantage of him, he wouldn't admit it for the campus."
"He don't have to," said Max. "He owns the campus already."
But she pointed out with spirit that her own rearing in the rich man's house was proof enough that his selfishness was not complete. "He didn'thave to take me in. Grandpa Reg said Mother was so upset when I was born, she wasn't able to take care
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