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...abiding citizens want an efficient police force. All thoughtful people realize that a police force cannot be efficient if underpaid and overworked. If this were the issue at hand, the public would agree absolutely with the demands of the policemen, who assert with reason that they are underpaid and overworked. But these policemen were not alone satisfied in bettering their condition. They have opposed local police force rules by affiliating with the American Federation of Labor. In so doing the strikers did not realize the great responsibility of their position nor did they regard the laws of their department governing...
...poets cannot always, declare with Carlyle that there is nothing else but justice in the universe, they can at least assert the ultimate triumph of justice. They believer that whether you or I win or lose, the "forts of folly" will one day fall. If beaten in the lower court of the understanding, they made their proud appeal to Caesar, to the imperial rights of the imagination...
...requires more than one evening a week. While many men feel that their time is too full to crowd into it another activity, the manner in which they meet this appeal from the less fortunate is a fair indication of their future usefulness. Men who have done this work assert to the fact that the value of the experience repays their time many fold...
...such advantages, far fewer than most European universities. Is it not right for an institution with the age and prestige of Harvard to point the way to a higher standard rather than to fall back to the admittedly inferior standard of today? Is it not our privilege to assert the fallacy of a system that prepares its scholars for college four years later and far less thoroughly than do the public schools of France...
...natural enough. The building was put up not long ago to meet a very real need among the student body of a common gathering place, of a headquarters for all phases of student activities. That such a need has ceased to exist we should hardly care to assert. Nevertheless with the development of student life and equipment for student organizations we must admit that the special functions which the Union once fulfilled are now to a large extent better fulfilled elsewhere. The CRIMSON has moved to more adequate quarters in a building of its own. The Reading Rooms in Widener...