Word: maxims
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...print Mr. Sturgis' letter under the caption "Maxim Has Another Supporter," apparently inferring that such are few and far between. In this respect you are lamentably mistaken, as I have yet to meet anyone not an editor of your paper who holds to your views...
...seems to the writer that the CRIMSON has lowered itself by the use of extraordinarily bad taste in imputing the motives of any gift which has been accepted by the College. Mr. Hudson Maxim, no matter what we may think of his ideas, has made us a gift which should be taken in the spirit in which it was given. "Never look a gift horse in the mouth...
...heading over your editorial "A Maxim Silencer" is also in bad taste for it goes far from silencing. Preparedness does not mean militarism. Let me refer you to the articles of William Howard Taft in the Saturday Evening Post of June 5 and of Thomas Edison in the New York Times of May 30. Both of these advocate large supplies of ammunition without militarism...
...remind you that no one imputes Nobel's Peace Prize. Nobel made his entire fortune in the manufacture of munitions of war. No one has ever claimed that his prize is a penance for his mode of making a living. This is what you are trying to do to Maxim. You say he is trying to justify his manufacture of ammunition in the past...
...CRIMSON would better speak the opinion of the University if it would apologize to Mr. Maxim for its imputation of his motives. After that it may argue the pros and cons of preparedness to its heart's desire. H. S. STURGIS...