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...argumentation, it is puerile to dwell on exceptions, they prove nothing and get one nowhere. No movement for the betterment of society has been able to escape the overt acts of simple-minded fanatics. Merely because of the actions of the militant suffragettes is it to be maintained that woman suffrage is bad and was brought about by low-down methods? If it is not, then how can any self respecting person with a college trained mind maintain that prohibition was put over on the people by illegal methods because of the acts of the "hatchet-bearing females...
...words: "to make us rejoice anew that we are citizens and dwellers in so great and so happy a land." Unfortunately, there are many things in our past and contemporary history which might mar this bit of idealism. But it is not expected that the author dwell on these events when addressing primarily the young and newly naturalized American. Although Professor Hart leaves one with the impression that our history is a resultant of popular forces mainly, the significance of personal leadership in our history is very strongly emphasized by frequent panegyrical sketches of our "beacon lights." In the brief...
...must be ice-cold in the winter and torrid in summer; and it is imperative that he rise every morning at four A. M. to remove the ashes form a half-dozen professorial furnaces. Chemistry 14b must be elected as often as possible, in order that his biographer may dwell on the painful journeys to 7.45 classes. And at least once in his strenuous college career he must attempt, unsuccessfully, to reform an institution which can be magnified into a symbol of capitalistic dominance. If this scheme is rigidly adhered to, it appears probable that attendance at Harvard will promote...
Except the Council itself? Horrible thought--yet to dwell on it is to realize that most of the above is a lie, for it deals with the past, not with the present. In the mirror of their acts are seen the characteristics of former Councils, but while a mirror shows too well the ravages of the past if shows nothing of the future, for it takes no account of the possibilities of change within...
Among the most apposite remarks Mr. Price made are those on religion. The relations of the British Crown, as the greatest Mohammedan Power on earth, with India while fighting Mohammedan Turkey are summed up: "One sometimes wonders, on that exalted plane on which Sovereigns dwell, what the Emperor of India has been saying to the Defender of the Faith...