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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Prompted by your editorial of Tuesday, May 27th, I venture to express a prevalent opinion with regard to the CRIMSON'S attitude toward the proposed "Harvard Daily." The instinct of self-defense must, of course, have prompted the CRIMSON to reply to the severe but true attack of the Harvard Magazine, but neither instinct nor reason can excuse the weakness and evasiveness of that reply. Literary pouting and stamping of the feet not only are no defense, but argue for the truth of the opposide view. The fact that the CRIMSON enjoys a monopoly as a college newspaper...
...been reluctant to choose the University as a probable winner today, but more than one king has recently displayed fatal weakness in choosing winners. It is hardly necessary, however, to emphasize that a large attendance by members of the University will encourage entrants to victory as well as express proper courtesy toward the visitors from other colleges and universities...
...radical in its remodelling of international society. The Peace of Westphalia gave the coup de grace to the idea of a united Europe in the Holy Roman Empire and inaugurated an age of sovereign territorial states. The Peace of Utrecht inaugurated an age of commercial and colonial rivalry by express recognition of the principle of the balance of power. The Treaty of Vienna sought to establish a concert of Europe, but with recognition of dynastic interests, it ignored the rising tide of nationalism and democracy. It remained for the present treaty to recognize cultural and economic considerations and self-determination...
...write; and, it is to be hoped, read. Possibly the isolated genius does not flourish in these pages, and perhaps there are here no signs of that rara avis, the average student. But infallibly there is worth-while work from men blessed with ideas and ability to express them...
Eighteen men, comprising the University and Freshman crew squads, together with Coach Haines and Manager A. Houghton '21, leave tonight on the Federal Express for Annapolis for their races with the Princeton and Naval Academy crews on the Severn Saturday. The crews will have light practices tomorrow morning and afternoon and Saturday morning, in the Ward shells which the Naval Academy has loaned the University for the races. The crews will be seated as follows...