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...then of the utmost concern that university graduates see clearly amid the fog and think straight amidst the babel of confusing voices. It sometimes seems as if no public address could attract attention today unless it constitutes a lurid arraignment of present conditions, or else a wanton attack upon some person or group of individuals. In the field of politics one who declaims of how things should be done and who promises the impossible gains a ready audience, while one who soberly recites a record of actual accomplishment is quickly brushed aside. Many men who pick up their morning papers...
...reasoning such as this, emerging from the heavy fog-bank which surrounds Russia, that has given us what knowledge we possess of the typical Bolshevik and his scrambled philosophy. In an individual case it means simply this: the Soviet Government backed by the secret police, supported by Red bayonets, representing the extreme wing of a radical party with a membership of 600,000 out of a population of 150,000,000, "expropriates" a man's property without compensation. This property is then 'given to the people",--that is to everybody except the bourgeoisie, the former property owners...
...Cologne to Berlin was 330 marks,--or $4.45; from Berlin to Stettin, 85 marks, or $1.28; and from Berlin to Frankfurt including sleeper, or, 191.60 marks, or $2.87. The fare by mail-plane from Berlin to Dortmund,--a trip for which we were booked, but missed on account of fog,--was 500 marks...
...second day of regular practice yesterday saw 21 shells on the river during the afternoon working under the tutelage of the small army of coaches who have assembled as a result of the start of the 1921 crew season. A fog rising from the water made a workout difficult and so practice was not very stiff and consisted of short rows near the Weld and Newell boathouses...
Despite an intermittent drizzle and a light fog, the first races in the Fall Crew Regatta were run off yesterday afternoon...