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...upstairs" into politics. Woodrow Wilson, thoroughgoing theorist, wanted to disband the Princeton clubs, that there might be no "undemocratic" associations running transversely through the undergraduate bodies. The Harvard surveyors left the shoe on the other foot. Their drastic vertical division of the student body needed in no wise to disrupt the Harvard club system, seen as a valuable series of horizontal planes upon which men of kindred interest meet from choice, just as they do in after-college life...
THIS WOULD NOT DISRUPT CLUBS...
...moment, it seemed that the whole Zionist movement might disrupt. But, finally, after long nights of committee meetings, a guarded resolution was passed declaring Dr. Weizmann to be the moral leader of Zionists-and, by implication, if he care to be it, president...
...continued, had not failed-it had never had a fair chance.* He insisted that if Britain were to leave India, Moslem and Hindu differences would immediately disrupt the Empire. "When we see everywhere among the responsible leaders of Indian thought, the evidence of sincere and genuine desire to cooperate with us," the Secretary for India told their lordships, "we shall not be niggardly bargainers if we meet the generous friendship which is near and dear to our hearts. We no longer talk of holding the gorgeous East in fear, but ask India to march side by side with...
...scofflaw, may not be at heart a law breaker: it may be that he is a person who will not give his support to a law which makes honest men criminals and which tends to disrupt national peace. It is not that I support those who scoff at prohibition: it is, rather, that I have no sympathy for those reforming zealots who merely antagonize men of a wider outlook and deeper perspective by looking, as Kipling puts it, "too good" and talking "too wise". CARL RIMSEY HEUSSY...