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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...effects for novelty's sake, preferring a bad new use to a good old one, just as vicious people crave new sensations. With due allowance for these tendencies of youth and of the decade, this number of the Advocate is creditable; its ambitions are worthy; its attainments are not mean; and it is much better than some of its predecessors. L. B. R. BRIGGS...
...days absence, I was surprised to have my attention called to a communication in Saturday's CRIMSON which was signed with my name. As I see by his communication today, Mr. Tucker, whose name appeared with mine, is as innocent of any hand in that bit of mean personal animosity as I am. I should like to take the opportunity of congratulating the author of that brief paragraph--who appears to have been too yellow to sign his own name to it--on the success of his little hoax. But it might be well to remind him, at the same...
This does not mean that we should fly to the ideal of individual development. Our present largely useless "liberal" education proceeds from our inherited tendency to justify subjects on the ground that they "develop the individual," without testing either to what end they develop or whether they really develop anything...
...Japan, establishing postal services. He continued: "Japan's intention of not letting Germany secure so much as a foothold in the East was demonstrated by her seizure of Kiao Chow early in the conflict. Her own interests are at stake and a German victory in that quarter would mean heavy punishment for the Japs...
...defence of Manchuria, together with the prospect of a strong ally for the attempt, would act as a spur on the Chinese, for the Trans-Siberian Railroad, the logical line of German advance, cuts directly through Manchuria, which is Chinese territory, and a German foothold there would mean disaster for China. Need for action must compel the Chinese to forget their present internal differences and unite as a nation. German propaganda, to be sure, has been spread in China, but the split between northern and southern provinces is due purely to Chinese politics. China is united at least in sentiment...