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...Tolstoi, the son of the world famous author, was prevented by President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia from delivering a speech in the precincts of that university which the censor at Moscow had seen fit to pass as harmless, even for Russia! Is that doctrine of of- fering public insult to a leading citizen of one of our possible allies to be left uninvestigated? It is not so long ago that the Harvard authorities prevented the widow of Mr. Sheehy Skeffington from speaking in the college building, though it allowed men like Scott Nearing to use the same hall...
...system will be the hydraulic cement to bind together all the magnificent building blocks -- an increased army, an increased navy, strengthened coast fortifications, coast railroads and waterways, the co-ordination of our industrial resources and energies -- into an enduring structure of peace, security and immunity from attack or insult. REAR ADMIRAL ROBERT E. PEARY...
...national honor. What one of you is there to whom the honor of your women is less dear than their lives? And yet you would give a veiled compliment to their sex by calling your country "she". What one of you is there who dares deny the open insult of Germany's defiance? What pacifist would have saved his own life on the Lusitania, to let a child and mother drown? And yet you say "life before honor...
This monument is an insult to god. It will be an enduring memorial to the shams of Harvard and to nothing else. It was voted by the corporation on November 27 after mature deliberation, in the face of apposition from outside the board and in spite of requests for delay...
...this point of view, it appears from the communication of John Jay Chapman printed elsewhere, is wholly false and deceptive. Instead of being Harvard's glory, the monument is a "memorial to hr shame" and likewise "an insult to God," all because "it makes no distinction between the cause of the Allies and the cause of Germany." Harvard's mistake, it seems, is in honoring the valor and self-sacrifice of her sons as Harvard men only and without drawing the line between valor that was pro-Ally and valor and devotion merely pro-German...