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...cheering the display of national pride that only a splendid martial review can call forth. To this the delegates merely observed that their parties at home would be inspired by the example of the Red Army to give battle unflinchingly, a countenancing of militarism which is certainly not in accord with their published beliefs. The difference, in their minds, between Russian militarism and that of the other countries is apparently that the Red Army represents the proletariat while the other armies do not. So militarism is not the real issue, but the desire for personal dominance, for a dictatorship...
...good many people besides the students at Princeton University would do well to ponder what President Hibben, in the course of the chapel address with which he opened the new term, told his boys about the "movies". He had warned them that, in full accord as he was with athletic interests and campus activities, they are not the chief reason for going to college. Then he picked out one "activity" as having little of his sympathy. "It is not really an activity," he said, and went...
...What is this recognition which we have denied to Russia for five years; what must a nation do to be recognized? Well, there are two theories of recognition in use today. One is in accord with the trend of international law and is the basis of the Russian policy of the European nations; the other is the American foreign policy toward Russia. New the first theory holds that the recognizing nation need only be satisfied that the petitioning government possesses the essential characteristics of a state, namely that it is the sovereign power in a free and independent nation...
Assuming, then, that there is an imperative moral duty to do right, and that to be wise means to act in accord with that obligation, why is it that those who measure themselves by themselves, and compare themselves among themselves are not wise? Perhaps it is better to ask first why men are so prone to measure their conduct in this way. It is, in fact, a very easy standard of life. To do as others do is simple. It saves the trouble of thinking and deciding. It is a good excuse also for some relaxation of a rigorous principle...
...sure,--but in the realization that they will be of great use to many men who could not afford to buy them?" This is the Phillips Brooks House Loan Library which loans several thousand volumes to students at nominal fees every year; a valuable service--and one in accord with Carlyle's observation: "A true University of these days is a Collection of Books...