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...also noted in the case of half-courses, one of which continues the work of the other. Although the work of the second semester is usually started with practically the same subject, the identical lecturer, and about the same students in the course, a change of assistants sometimes plays havoc with the former relative standing of individual members of the class...
...courage to carry out what they know to be true on account of fear from the disappointment that such action would arouse in their own countries. A war of 4 1-2 years duration and a short-sighted, sinful peace, whose destructive results have wrought a two year's havoc in the whole world, have together brought misery and misfortune to the victors as well as to the vanquished. We have squandered human lives and property in a terrible way during the last six years. Now, like business men, we must cooperate and limit all obligations in the borders...
...announcement that the "Committee of Forty-Eight" will convene in Chicago in July to form a new political party will not raise any appreciable havoc in the Republican or Democratic camps. The program of the Committee has been stigmatized as capitalistic and reactionary by the mass of radical thinkers in the country, while it savors too much of state socialism to make any strong appeal to even the most progressive wings of the traditional conservative elements...
Fortunately for Harvard, Killar and Soltis return next season to wreak more havoc and to lead the Crimson on its path of continued success...
...violently partisan. To be called a "Bolshevik" in seriousness in these days is enough to make a man fight. It is a label that cuts far deeper than "thief" or "murderer," because no one is quite aware of what it means, and one's imagination plays havoc with accusation...