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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...reference to the Adamson Bill Mr. Palue excuses "legislation before inves- tigation," only on the ground that investigation can not tell us as much as experience can. Now if we cannot anticipate experience with accurate investigation of present conditions and thus both evede disasters and select our lines of progress, the whole modern idea of enlisting experts for the scientific study of national economic problems may as well go to the floor and the nation rub on as best it may in hit-or-miss fashion. Why look before you leap when that means "belogging and postponing the issue"? Nations...
...idea that we could not have insisted on our rights at the time the Lusitania was sunk without causing war, because Germany was ready to defy us, is immediately refuted by his following statement that Germany has later respected them. It is unfortunate that this time the Democrats cannot "both eat their cake and have it too." If Germany had been so ready to defy us, she wouldn't have yielded up her profitable submarine campaign. Her final yielding, however, which was due more to respect for the power of the aroused American people than to the literature of their...
...been sympathetic enough towards the Allies, and not severe enough towards Germany. Strange to say, both parties are lined up behind Hughes, and apparently someone is being fooled. Probably it is the German-Americans who are being fooled, for Mr. Hughes is, after all, an American, and cannot be much in-sympathy with the things for which Prussia stands. He would probably have dealt with Germany about as Mr. Wilson did. It is not the fashion among nations to go to war until certain formalities have been complied with. In the month of August, 1914, the nations of Europe exchanged...
...theme; but its figures, although effective hints in themselves, are too familiar to be easily coordinated into a single, sharp effect. Mr. Murray Sheehan's two sonnets on "Fate," however, bear more clearly the stamp of vitalizing human experience. One feels that Mr. Murray is saying something because he cannot hold it back--because he has something to say. And at the end of his bold plea for individuality and self-reliance there comes to the reader a sense of satisfaction--dispersal of a doubt, vindication of faith, or what you will--that is seldom found in modern poetry...
...communication of Mr. Isidor Lazarus in the CRIMSON of October 26, and I must confess that his attack on the Republican sympathizers in the University impresses me as being not only particularly pointless but as eminently unfair and unreasoning. He makes three statements the truth of which I cannot for a moment admit, and from them draws a conclusion which is not only illogical but is also a insult to the intelligence of the majority of men who voted in the recent straw ballot...