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...Whereas the nations of the world, already impoverished by past war and confronted by the urgent social and economic problems bred by war, have entered on an unprecedented scale into the race for military and naval supremacy which makes for mutual distrust and war rather than for mutual understanding and peace...
...literary excellence, but also for the message of joy, faith and promise that each poem carries." Probably there is a place for this sort of thing; we are acquainted with several middling-to-elderly ladies to whom it is the breath of life--at intervals. But personally we distrust poetry with an avowed message. Experience has taught us that all too often it forgets to be poetry at all, while the deepest, truest, clearest message comes from the poetry which pretends to be nothing more. So, if someone gives you the book, you will read it through, sigh. "Thank...
...will eventually outgrow our present legislative system. Accordingly two alternatives remain; resting responsibility with the Executive or inventing a new method of representation through legislation. At present the former is rapidly gaining recognition, and no overtures of any consequence have been made for the latter. People have come to distrust the practicability of making innumerable laws for the regulation of society. The plan which satisfied the demands of the comparatively simple order of our forefathers cannot long endure the complexities of the present time. It will be part of our work to make the transition safely...
...world than the acquisition of foreign markets--and the close alliance of nations is one of them. "Tomorrow" is England's chance, perhaps her last chance, to withdraw gracefully from her attitude of the past. At present she is but laying for herself the foundations of future suspicion and distrust...
...other college activities--athletics, college periodicals and so on--has been a much truer test as a rule. Until the whole attitude of college students is overturned there can scarcely be a great change in the popular attitude; and such an overthrow, involving an end of the national distrust of sheer theory and the professional point of view, seems still afar. New York Tribune...