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Fortunately, the Republicans will be able to approach the question without constraint since it is now definitely known that President Wilson made no promises at the Peace Conference concerning cancellation of war debts. Nevertheless the air today is full of just such proposals for straightening out the economic situation. Great Britain is considering the cancellation of her loans, amounting to some nine billions, in the event that we take a similar step. As she owes us approximately four billions, her not loss will be about five billions, against our ten; but when it is remembered that our population and wealth...
...which then seemed revolutionary. It was felt that if the services of religion maintained by the University were to be a means of awakening and sustaining the spiritual life of the men, participation in them must be free. The attitude of mind of men who attended such services under constraint impaired their value as expressions of religion...
...ride over the boggy roads," etc. The tale is better than most of its brand, with interesting characters sharply defined in a charming and well realized environment; but the brand is poor. In the short article championing the university ideal for Harvard, Mr. Gregg likewise vitiates his contention by constraint and obscurity of diction...
...feel that a few such memorials, if suitably chosen and located, will in any way injure the livable atmosphere of the Union. Memorial Hall, for example, is a monument to those who fought and died in the Civil War. Yet this fact apparently does not act as a constraint upon those who go there. We believe that the Union is the one place where a memorial to Dean Shaler will be most effective in accomplishing its purpose, and therefore urge that the proposition be not rejected without the most careful consideration...
...strengthened in municipal politics,--always assuming that partisanship mean not service of party as an end, but the holding of party as a means to carry out policies for the general good; second, that municipal government should be a rule of order and liberty, rather than of order and constraint. There should be two parties in municipal politics: on one hand, the firm party in power, on the other, an eager party of criticism. And the government should give the maximum of order, but all liberty consistent with order and with decency...