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...National Foreign Trade Council for essays on "The commercial necessity for developing foreign trade through an adequate American merchant marine" has been extended until the opening of College next autumn. All manuscripts must then be delivered to the Secretary of the Faculty, University 20, and must conform to the general rules for the guidance of competitors for prizes on page 594 of the University Catalogue. The essays must also be not less than 3,000 nor more than 5,000 words in length...
...Major-General Wood, speaking at the Memorial Day exercises endorsed the old slogan, "My country, right or wrong." He said in substance: "Some people think this is not ethical, but it is at least national and that is enough, for in a democracy the majority's will must rule." It seems, however, that Professor R. B. Perry, another earnest advocate of universal military service, in the last number of The New Republic presents a view which Harvard men will more readily endorse. "Loyalty to one's country," he says, "unless one understands its policy and helps to mould...
...want our country to be right, particularly when it is a question of war. Even if one makes one's fatherland monarch of conscience and dictator of action, surely it must be revolting to go killing the enemy when you think he is right. Though all sensible people, as General Wood said, desire peaceful settlement of troubles, yet honest attempts have failed and may fail again. And therefore Plattsburg, the naval cruise, and Harvard's Preparedness Week (with its large bouquets of "easy conscience...
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...serve not themselves but their country. Has Harvard's tradition of restraint, which makes other colleges wonder sometimes at what they call a Harvard indifference, not only curbed but also broken the university's spirit? The regiment silenced such questions. Its manly bearing met the test of Major-General Leonard Wood's searching eye; the men's vigorous step and resolute faces gave weakness the lie and scouted indifference...