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...left to their fate. Their business, however, must show a sinking tendency in proportion to the realization by their lonesome readers in Germany of how little political importance attaches to Swiss opinion, and then these Swiss papers will have to return to their old profession, which is to entertain the hotel servants and shepherds and peasants of their native mountain pastures." Many things grow in a dictatorship but one which does not is honest readable journalism. Unable to find out from their own throttled Press what is going on in their homeland. German citizens have turned more and more...
...policy is commendable in that it will provide opportunity for the expression of any liberal opinion latent in the University. Without pledging itself to any set political ideas, such as is the case with the National Student League, the Liberal Club according to its newly expressed ideals will entertain any reasonably liberal thoughts as they are suggested from time to time. By adopting a resolution which favors the giving of credit by the Government department for work done at the Laboratory of Students in Politics under the auspices of the Department of Commerce, the Club has signified its intention...
...great fondness for raw eggs, and when he was a youngster my mother was more than once startled by discovering that a box apparently full of eggs was really half empty! But it would undoubtedly be infra-dig for Scotland Yard or the Surete Generale even to entertain such a simple explanation! By the way, TIME in its article on L'Affaire d'Espionnage, March 26. repeats another old canard by saying that my father "Theodore Switz [was] a naturalized Russian." Actually my father was born in Madison. Wis. (U. S. A.) in 1857. His parents were Germans...
...should choose him as one of the fifty aids. Moreover, I felt that, the alumni exercises being a strictly intimate Harvard family affair, any alumnus should be welcomed back. The very fact that it happened to be a university alumni gathering made it even more certain that one could entertain people of varying beliefs, for freedom of thought and speech is the breath of life of a real university. I regret that Hanfstaengel finds he cannot return and I think it unfortunate that some people have interjected political issues into an intimate family gathering. It emphasizes acutely how strong...
While the Varsity is entertaining B. U. this afternoon, the Freshman diamonders will entertain Thayer Academy. Tomorrow they will face B. U. at Riverside. Tom Bilodeau, heavy hitter of the yearlings, who can play almost any one of the nine positions of a baseball team and play them well, is the leading star of the yearlings at the moment. He's the best looking baseball player-to enter Harvard in several years...