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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Statesmen may deplore the evils of the times; bolsheviks may at any moment tear society asunder; thirsty lips may forever be parched. But if all these disasters do not destroy the spark of humor in mankind, then life will be worth living after...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN THE REALM OF HUMOR. | 11/5/1919 | See Source »

...place the maintenance of the public security in the hands of a body of men who have attempted to destroy it would be to flout the sovereignty of the law the people have made." This keynote sentence of the latest proclamation of Governor Coolidge of Massachusetts sums up in itself the feeling of unprejudiced and patriotic citizens of the Commonwealth. The police who deserted their posts are as reprehensible as the soldiers who in time of war deserted theirs. The former should never have been entrusted with the public safety. The people of Massachusetts will see to it that they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "THERE IS NO MIDDLE GROUND." | 9/26/1919 | See Source »

Determining the fate of the surrendered German and Austrian fleets is one of the first practical questions to be decided by the Allies. To destroy them will be the same as admitting the impossibility of adjusting international affairs amicably. To distribute them according to the will of an international committee will give a proof to the world that a new friendly spirit exists between nations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A TEST OF THE NEW SPIRIT. | 3/18/1919 | See Source »

...flurry of excitement caused by the appearance of the Harvard Magazine and its monkey-covered parody is over, there arises the natural question as to what was the purpose of the anonymous satirists in producing their pamphlet. Only one purpose seems to fit the situation, namely a desire to destroy the new publication...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO MORE PARODIES WANTED. | 3/7/1919 | See Source »

...world has tried and failed in all other methods of keeping civilization afloat. Another war like that through which the world, is still passing, would throw the governments of most of the world into chaos, would break in pieces the remaining world powers, and would in the end destroy democracy and the democratic countries together...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEAGUE OF NATIONS A NECESSITY FOR PEACE | 2/25/1919 | See Source »

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