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...Bingham rests his case upon the argument, amongst others, that "Germany has nothing whatsoever to do with the management of the Olympic Games". This, evidently, is considered by the proponents of participation to be a very telling point, for it is advanced by all leading figures in the fight to send the team abroad to a Nazi Olympiad. If such be the case, if it is a cornerstone of the reasoning of the pro-participation people, I am afraid that the Olympic Committee has no case...
Great minds, not only those emerged from Harvard, should use the tercentenary as an occasion to come together, to exchange views amongst themselves. Also some opportunities should be given for others to benefit by the resulting concentration of intelligence. For this a summer course, with these minds especially drafted to give it, should be organized...
...this is bitter book. Mr. Millis is unable to attribute any higher motives to the Allied than to the German cause. Consequently he is unable to do otherwise than pour scorn on Ambassador Page in London; on Colonel House in his peregrinations amongst the struggling nations; on Leonard Wood who, he alleges, had sat at the feet of von Tripitz, and had devoted himeslf, long before the outbreak of the European War, to the upbuilding of an American militarism by the same modern and realistic methods wherewith the German had so brilliantly and disastrously succeeded, on Theodore Roosevelt--all Anglophiles...
...Josiah W. Bailey, broke off in the midst of a speech to exclaim: "When a minister of the Gospel or a minister of a church comes down into the political arena and goes out with his radio incendiarism to stir up the fountains of hate in a distressed land amongst a suffering people, I take it nothing amiss and I make no apologies, but I will snatch the halo from his brow and throw it into the nearest spittoon, and then throw the spittoon into the gutter...
...Worcester came to Harvard in 1925 to fill the vacancy left by Dr. Roger I. Lee '01. Before his appointment he had served in many prominent medical positions all over the world. Most important amongst these were deputy commissioner of the American Red Cross in Switzerland in 1918 and 1919, and founder of the Royal Victorian Order of Nurses in Canada in commemoration of the Queen's Jubilee...