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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...side, we refrain from attributing to him unpopular sentiments about American government; from indignant letters demanding his suppression; from veiled editorials suggesting that he is "not the sort of man"; from abusing him indiscriminately as a "subtle propagandist" and a "credulous sentimentalist;" and from the argumentum ad hominem generally. Apart from any question of courtesy or dignity, this sort of thing is an insult to the intelligence of the University. If a man is lying to call him a liar is a waste of time which might better be devoted to establishing the truth; if he is telling the truth...
...29th of this year there occurred a solar eclipse in Europe and pictures were taken of certain stars then seen to be near the sun. It was found by measurement that these stars were represented as being farther apart than they normally should be. That is, the rays of light had been bent while passing the sun. Einstein had predicted that this bend would be one and seven tenths seconds and this is precisely what was found to be true...
...constituents, the conservative avoids intercourse with the radical because he has decided against radical ideas per se or because his reputation may suffer. He is likely to be called a Bolshevik sympathizer, and with that, all his opportunity for constructive criticism ceases. And the two factions drift so far apart that they scarcely speak the same language...
...Apart from our opinion on the merits of compulsory military training, and quite apart from any peculiar national or international conditions that make it now more or less desirable than before the War, it would be the worst sort of folly for the University to be identified with a movement for universal service. It seems to me obvious that this question is one about which the University has no business to be partisan. For it to "further by its inspiration the establishment of a universal service throughout the nation" would be as inappropriate as for it to oppose the adoption...
Neither of his letters makes any definite statement, save that he is not surprised--an assertion with which I have no quarrel; he only implies by turns (a) that a lynching mob should not be punished by law, (b) that, apart from the question of whether they should be punished or not, they are normal citizens, acting from good motives. Both these doctrines seemed to me too mischievous to pass unchallenged; and I attacked them with arguments which he gives no sign of having read, and certainly has not answered. But when I read in his second letter...