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...Harvard snobbishness" have prevented them from acquiring any intimate knowledge upon which to base their choice of officers; and under these conditions it would be handle honorable for them to select any of the names mentioned in the ballot. Their choice would have to be determined by nationality, hearsay, or some such ridiculous principle as musical assonance or rhythm...
...going to happen next. The last few years have seen a lot of prosperity with the consequent extravagance attendant upon it. This has brought the expected reaction during the last few months, when we have had a period of depression. During this period business has been conducted chiefly on hearsay, and there has been a great deal of seatteration of authority, of 'passing the buck' when it came to making a decision of business policy. The great cry today is to do away with this, and to get back to normal. But what are our prospects of getting back...
...regards West Point, we believe that President Eliot erred, perhaps basing his opinions a little too much upon mere hearsay, of which there has been plenty. In this case it would seem that President Eliot is trying to umpire the game from the grandstand. He has not even had the privilege of serving under West Point officers, as many of us have had. In another column of today's CRIMSON a cadet, an ex-Harvard man, states the case for the Military Academy...
History 15 should be a testing ground for ideas which have been conceived in hearsay and excitement. There is scarcely a member of the University who has not now such ideas on the Russian problem. The enrollment for Professor Lord's course should reflect that fact...
...this is most emphatically a case of "better late than never." Removing the blockade will eliminate much of the mysticism and conjecture which now exists regarding the Russian situation. It should enable us to study facts and adopt, in the future, a policy based upon knowledge rather than on hearsay...