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...observance of a tradition that has become an almost sacred part of University life, disrespect or careless negligence are rather disheartening. Loud talking and laughing during Senior Singing each evening, musical Freshmen who decide to accompany the Seniors from the audience, town visitors with wailing balies, and the vociferous younger set of Witherspoon Street who hail themselves together nightly in the belief that this is the Children's Hour, all detract considerably from the enjoyment of those who come to listen, with earnest appreciation, to the singing itself. It seems only fair to the consideration of the latter that...
Meaning no disrespect by this dose, I remain, rather amused...
...breeding place of error and corruption, but it is flattering to find that no less an intellectual than the archpriest of commerce shares the view. At decent intervals the descendants of John Harvard have striven to convince the stubborn Elis of their inherent sinfulness, but the well-known disrespect of the undergraduate has been an insuperable obstacle to conversion. When confronted with the doughty, or doughy, legions of Mr. Grant, the Bulldog cannot but turn tail with a weak...
...that cannot be justified in morals or in law." Others referred to it as "the blackest page in our history as a nation." Still others said of the President: "Did any civilized representative of superior power ever indulge in browbeating so pitiable and so pitiless? Can such cowardly disrespect be matched in the annals of treaty-making nations?" On the other side President Roosevelt's patience was severely taxed and he had seen a half a century's dillydallying over the Panama question bring forth no fruit. He himself once said that one might as well...
...declared a part of the U. S.; but it is everybody's privilege to adhere to what good points they have in their own institutions. This is a rational attitude which makes possible healthy international relations. But on the other hand Russia became a target of universal criticism and disrespect when she began her propaganda of preaching to the nations of the world the gospel of "Soviet" Republic (which according to her is the only right form of government) instead of Republican form of government. Russia wanted wholesale conversion of other nations scraping their names, traditions, culture...