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...Colby, Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson, spoke at Cincinnati two weeks after his fellow lawyer, Secretary of State Hughes, whom he called "the clever lawyer who falls back on methodical ignorance-to shield his client, President Coolidge." Mr. Colby then proceeded into the stormy state of Indiana to awaken echos that had just been stirred by his other fellow lawyer, John W. Davis...
...will be interesting to watch the operation and the results of the Phillips Brooks House deputations to various Massachusetts towns, which start out this coming week-end. Their object is to awaken the young people to the worth-while things of life, and to help the older people appreciate the problems and difficulties which constantly confront the young ones and which they frequently misunderstand or neglect altogether. And undoubtedly there is a field for such work an almost unlimited field, in which the success of the deputations must depend, like everything else, on the personalities of the deputies...
...University and even more of the citizens of the nation are not interested particularly in foreign relations. It is Mr. Mellon and Mr. Volstead who come to everyone's home while the foreigners are far, far away. If the Bok Peace Plan does no more than to awaken people to the fact that the foreigners are not far, far away; that the United States is almost in Europe and it must decide what it is going to do about it, the game will have been well worth the candle. But perhaps even that is asking too much...
...buyers are child-mindell and so irresponsible. To brand this industry as "intellectual bootlegging" will, it is feared, lend spice rather than cast odium. Reform can only come from within the undergraduate body and unfortunately much of its mentality has become so flabby through years of notes that to awaken enough energy to cast off this Old Man of the Sea still remains a dream of the future...
...just such resolutions as yours", Captain Snow writes to the University of Pennsylvania Junior Class, "which, when adopted, given publicity, and when rigidly enforced, serve to awaken the public conscience to the danger that now menaces this great country of ours...