Word: fears
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...analogy between the United States and Switzerland or Belgium however, is false, owing to our much more fortunate situation. What nation can conceivably find it to its advantage to hack its way through the United States to reach its enemy? Certainly we have as little reason to fear the designs of any of our neighbors as they ours. If it is Canada that menaces us, let us at once abrogate the agreement of one hundred years' standing in accordance with which our northern frontier is entirely unfortified...
...today." But if it does, it will do it by showing him facts that may be new to him. Are we to urge a man to keep away lest he learn the truth? Is the position of those that oppose all preparation for possible war so weak that they fear to have a college man, who can and will think for himself, brought face to face with the other side of the problem for six weeks...
...Orchestra," which is a review of a book by M. A. DeWolfe Howe '87, "The Boston Symphony Orchestra; an historical sketch," Owen Wister '82 shows a much better sense of the fitness of things than he did in his stroy Philosophy 4, by which he is known, and I fear unfavorably, to most undergraduates. His style is intimate and lively and his enjoyment of the book in question, and of books and music in general so keen and so apparent that we can almost forgive him for his college story...
...opinion, the outcome of the long series of conflicts of interest attending the era of colonial expansion, now practically closed. We never had a serious conflict of interest in this field, and consequently were not menaced by any other power, before the war. We have even less reason to fear the hostility of any other power, now that the states that might possibly come into conflict with us are being exhausted by war. Consequently there is no rational ground for increase in armaments at this time...
...discussion was amply long enough to allow full presentation of sane arguments, there is no reason to submit the question to the Student Council or to any other authority. The Forum virtually endorsed tolerance. Those who wish beer may have it; those who do not, need have no fear that it will be forced upon them...