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...arguments thus advanced on both sides indicate that the issue has become political in nature. While that is neither avoidable nor to be deprecated in a democracy, it has a tendency to becloud the issue by generating waves of emotional morality which confuse rather than enlighten. It is believed that an analysis of the problem in the light of the professions of both sides may serve a useful purpose...
Despite all the effort that is made to becloud the one real issue of the campaign by personal and petty considerations, the fact remains that the thinking voter must choose between a League of Nations and the Republican party. Therefore it behooves those who-out vital and progressive issues above narrow partisanship to vote for Cox and Roosevelt. MALCOLM H. DILL, '20. CHARLES W. ELIOT 2D '20. GERALD MURPHY 2G.L.A. RUSSELL M. SANDERS 2G.B...
Whether Dr. Eliot's strictures on West Point are tenable or not remains for experts to decide, but why becloud the issue of his charges of "woozyness" by attempting an analogy between two wholly unrelated subjects? When a man intimates that our habits might be worse if we were nearer New York, or Philadelphia--or Sodom and Gomorrha--he makes a statement that reflects credit neither on his logic nor on his ethical standards. Surely there is more than a saving remnant among the student body who deplore with Dr. Eliot the lawlessness and indecency that characterize the conduct...
...compatible with the War Department's program, and since the publications form no insignificant portion of that life, they should be maintained wherever possible. Not only do they serve the student body but they also offer to many men opportunities in acquiring experience in journalism. The war cannot becloud the fact that its end will see Harvard and its student institutions continuing. There are therefore advantages, real advantages to be derived from the present competitions...