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...twelve years now I have lived in France. Over here events of great importance have followed each other fast. Pick your Paris newspapers as you will, run the whole gamut of varying political opinion, and still you will find it nigh impossible to form a true idea of what is happening...
...triplets, one in a million quadruplets. There are authentic records of several multiparities of five, but only five credible instances of six children being born in one pregnancy, and only one acceptable record of seven. Hence last week's dispatch from Porto Alegre, Brazil was well-nigh incredible: one Espinosa Nunez de Antunes of Bacacay had been delivered of eight daughters, two sons. All ten died at birth...
...pamphlets urging the Christian precepts of peace. Students discuss, suggest, construct methods for a cleanly local government, an omniscient national government, an everlasting, international peace. These are doubtless all very pleasing intellectual exercises and they may produce some excellent suggestions, but students labor under a difficulty which is well nigh insurmountable. Most undergraduates are visionary for they have spent their years in study without the leavening influence of practical experience. They are able to see the beauty of a world without strife, but they cannot bring forth the remedies which will ensure it. The Peace Treaty of President Wilson shows...
...argument that in a university of some size personal contact with instructors is impossible. This is, to a large extent, true. The intimacy between the teachers and the taught that is bred in a small college is one of its most priceless advantages, while it is well nigh impossible to establish any friendly acquaintanceship at an institution such as Harvard save by some artificial stimulus...
...many men craning their necks from other vantage points on the campus were saying the same thing. There is something unexorably alluring about an effective tool for war, whether it be a sword, a pistol, or a submarine. And once you've got the weapons, there is a well nigh uncontrollable desire to use them, as the world of 1914 bears witness...