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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...number of experiments to this end have been carried on both in Europe and the United States with the idea of making the airplane independent of landing fields. If the attempt to produce the machine is successful, it would revolutionize the art of flying, and make possible the "back yard" machine which every man could own as he now owns his automobile...
However, the superficial denunciations contained in the letter are less astounding when one reads further that the present government of Russia is a "Government with which the United States is internally and externally at war." Here is a worse error, which law students especially should not make. The United States has never declared war on Russia. If a de facto war or blockade exists it is clearly unconstitutional and illegal. It should be the object of every patriotic citizen to secure the enforcement...
...exhortation to the sponsors of the meeting to come forth and declare their belief that "Social and economic theories now in practice in Russia are in any sense applicable to the traditions, institutions and aims of this country." We are sorry to disappoint, but none of us can make such a statement. We vary in our opinions from those who believe the work the Soviets are doing in Russia is at least an improvement over the age-long terrorism of the Czar to those who condemn it. None of us maintain that the program and methods of Lenine and Trotzky...
...would oppose the introduction of Bolshevism into the country by any means, constitutional or otherwise, we feel that the framers of the Constitution of the United States, if they could have taken the communication seriously, must have had Freudian nightmares on recollecting their own insignificant words: "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech or of press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble...
...Interscholastic Scholarship Trophy annually awarded by the Harvard Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa to the school whose candidates make the best record at the Admission examination has been won for the year 1919 by the Hotchkiss School at Lakeville, Conn., at which the Reverend H. G. Buehler is headmaster...