Word: imperfection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CRIMSON considers it an exceedingly healthy sign that its readers take sufficient interest in these matters to put their views in writing. Their opinions are of necessity based on imperfect knowledge; yet the great majority of those who will cast their votes next Tuesday will base their views, for the most part, on even more imperfect knowledge. Would Mr. Oettinger, because of this, limit the right to vote, so that only recognized experts could cast their ballots...
Lampy's arraignment of the College Office has a tone of seriousness in it; and well it might. The organization in Harvard's administration building is most imperfect. Many undergraduates know this to be a fact through experience; probably the administrative force itself would hesitate before denying it. The sub-Freshman fights his way into college between opposing statements on his standing. The Senior gives up the ghost when he finds that no one can solve his concentration problem...
...jockeying for position that seems to be the sole occupation of the Senate! Ever since President Wilson returned last July with the peace treaty, the overwhelming sentiment of the nation has been for ratification in one form or another,--few have cared much what. Admittedly the document is imperfect, but nevertheless nine-tenths of the forms of American expression--the press, the pulpit, the colleges, the chambers of commerce, the leading public men, straw votes--for nine months have urged ratification...
...compromise is necessary to save the Treaty, it should be made. The Treaty cancelled means disorganization; the breaking down of that delicate structure so laboriously built up. If a compromise is the price of the Treaty no matter how imperfect that Treaty may be rendered, the great stepping stone toward international morality is well worth the price...
...voting today will be interpreted in many different ways. There will be a discussion of its sectional significance, of the point of view of the large and of the small college, and so on, ad infinitum. The forms in which the questions are submitted on the ballot are necessarily imperfect--it would not be possible to draw up a ballot representing all shades of opinion in the country--and will be construed by various factions in various ways. But on the real issue--Treaty or no Treaty--there can be no mistaking the verdict...