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...leadership through the moral qualities of integrity and devotion, rather than through intellectual genius. The people admired the philosophical mind of Franklin, the political idealism of Jefferson, the fiery eloquence of Patrick Henry. Many lesser men claimed their respect and attention. But, above all, the colonies in the darkest hour trusted to the integrity of Washington. It was his devotion which sustained the Continental Army at Valley Forge and Morristown, the public confidence in his uprightness as trustee of the presidential powers which made possible the ratification of the Constitution. Coupled with self-sacrificing loyalty, Washington displayed a statesmanlike insight...
...Gammons '18 discusses "Moussorgsky and his Songs." Little is known and much discussion is made about Moussorgsky, that strange embodied essence of darkest Russia; and Mr. Gammons is to be thanked for his analysis of the spirit of the songs...
...pacifists feel intensely the horrors of war, not only in our won land, but throughout the world. They regard it rightly as one of the greatest scourges of mankind--one of the darkest blots on our civilization. They have formed innumerable societies to abolish it; and large sums of money have been given to aid their work. But they give the impression of seeing the end more clearly than the means, and appear to think that war can be forever drowned out by a flood of talk, that the pen can grind the sword into a plowshare. Some pacifists speak...
...presentation of the trophy cup will take place in the Lampoon sanctum at darkest midnight some time this week, and will be attended only by the two editorial boards, all members of which are to be masked...
...rather unctious enthusiasm about the Brooks House, where undergraduates "catch" "religious experience." The other, by H. Y. Masten '10, narrates the adventures of Cambridge astronomers in "photographing the heavens" and supplies information, such as it is, about the astronomical instruments, their cost and equipment. The exploration and exploitation of Darkest Harvard for the benefit of readers of the Illustrated is without a doubt a worthy mission for a college periodical. But the mission must fail if the explorers, unlike Mr. Andrew Lang, who wrote about Oxford, persist in dullness of substance...