Word: lined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...BARN DOOR, I would like to take exception to certain statements. You call the Harvard petition urging the President to raise the embargo on Spain "ill-timed and misdirected" and urge Harvard men "instead of petitioning in behalf of a practically deceased Spanish Republic, to take a more constructive line...
...well in European competition. At the 1936 Olympics, Norway made a clean sweep of the four speed-skating events. American skaters attribute this to lack of experience in the European (and Olympic) method of racing. In U. S., skaters race in a pack; the first man over the line wins. In Europe, there is no jockeying for position, no jamming at the turns. Skaters race individually; the man who covers the distance in the fastest time wins...
...title your editorial "Locking the Barn Door"; you term the petition "ill-timed and misdirected;" and finally you suggest "a more constructive line" than "petitioning in behalf of a practically deceased Spanish Republic." Your attitude, in short, is that "It's too late." Let Professor Rupert Emerson answer you (I quote from his address at Ford Hall Friday evening...
...more constructive line? The "Crimson" suggested none. What constructive action, short of enlisting, can Harvard students take to help the cause they believe to be right? The answer is plain: they can only urge their government to act for them-by lifting the embargo. Allan B. Ecker...
Editor's note: The Crimson suggested that a more constructive line would be agitation for general alteration of the Neutrality Act, since Washington circles are already thinking in terms of a Franco victory; and since preparation for the future is more important than trying to remedy what is past...