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...time of reconstruction at hand today, France must make the most of the slender stock that is left her. We must start afresh to fill the depleted ranks of our scientists and scholars and we must choose as broad and firm a foundation as possible. Every child in France should have an opportunity to make the most of its latent possibilities...
...this we have been partially successful, but, no doubt, not perfectly so; and we hope to learn to do better by experience, constant effort and openness of mind. It is well that the war should direct increased attention to these questions, should provoke us to take our bearings afresh, and consider our courses anew; but the conditions brought about by our entering the conflict are not the best cause the conditions are abnormal and the results obtained by trying something new are not certainly those that would occur in time of peace...
Russia, from which many of them came, does not need them, but she would avail herself of them as well as we. If they desire to upheave the world, and to mould it afresh in the image of their own desires they had far better begin in the land which was unfortunate enough to bring them forth, and among peoples of whose kin they are. If they desire absolute liberty of action, they had far better go to some uninhabited and desolate isle. For only when there are no other men within the bounds of intercourse may a man enjoy...
...added some bit to the Prussian land. The last of the Hohenzollerns will live to see that long and cruelly-wrested land snatched from him again. Will he remember Dixmonde when he hears the troops of the five great Powers crossing the Rhine? Will his heart bleed for Louvain afresh when the allies of democracy march through the plains of Prussia...
...tenth annual concert of the Musical Club in John Knowles Paine Hall demonstrated afresh the vitality of the Club in its ability to provide an interesting and well diversified program, including original compositions all performed by its members. The most ambitious work and one which abundantly justified its performance was a sonata for viola and piano by D. N. Tweedy, Jr., 1G. This sonata, excellently laid out for its respective instruments, showed clear and logical structure, with solicut themes capable of varied treatment, of excellent emotional contents, alike dignified brilliant and expressive. Mr. Coolidge and Mr. Tweedy gave an authoritative...