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...negative definition there must be added one which is affirmative and constructive. In any such formulation Independence and Liberalism must stand as twin first principles. To make a college daily a mere enlarged version of the official bulletin board and a pleasantly written broadside for faculty opinions is to indict the mental energy and the moral courage of its editors. To make it a propaganda sheet for stand-pattists is to give up the heritage of youth: the mission of reform and reorganization...
...Summary. "I indict the Republican Party in its organized capacity for having shaken public confidence to its very foundations. I charge it with having exhibited deeper and more widespread corruption than any that this generation of Americans has been called upon to witness. I charge it with complacency in the face of that corruption and with ill will toward the efforts of honest men to expose it. I charge it with gross favoritism to the privileged and with utter disregard of the unprivileged. I charge it with indifference to world peace and with timidity in the conduct of our foreign...
...replies from state game wardens and commissioners, 38 indict the crow...
...difficult to see how the author, brought up in the critical and liberal atmosphere of Harvard, could have chosen, through such apparent implications, to indict the Chinese as a people in this insolent and irresponsible manner. That the army of China, with its obsolete arms and want of training, proved to be inefficient and inferior to its opponents in her recent wars is a fact, but to attribute this without any ground to the reason that the Chinese are "cowardly" can not but be construed as an act of wanton insult of national character. If the Chinese are given...
...voicing the opinion of a great number of his fellows when he says that, though there is no statute in Massachusetts requiring Harvard College to fly the American flag over her buildings, it is right and proper that it should be done. Thought we may not to able to indict our trustees for their neglect, we may at least persuade them to raise the stars and stripes over University Hall. A flag would cost little. Who shall say that it would detract from beauty of the yard? I hope sincerely that at Memorial Day Harvard will show her patriotism...