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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Phillips Brooks House Association will hold its annual fall clothing collection on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week, Collectors will go around through the various dormitories on those days to gather up, besides discarded clothing old text books and magazines. A wagon will call for the articles collected on Thursday...
...leader who could tell us something of the great part our people ought to play in this new, throbbing world, something of the debt we owe mankind for our prosperity. Has Hughes been such a leader? On the contrary, he has shown himself to be only the old-time conventional campaigner, bent on "making out a case" against the administration. In his attacks on Wilson he has not once broken the monotony of his dignified invective by a single courteous acknowledgment of the difficulties of the President's position, or of the partial success of his labors. Not once...
...those who have feared that not Mr. Hughes but the old standpat guard will rule the Republican party if put into power, this statement is undeniable confirmation of their fears: Mr. Hughes will not lead. He will sit back and let Congress in its infinite wisdom legislate or not legislate as the spirit moves...
...tariff issue Mr. Paine sees as a question of continuing the progressive legislation of President Wilson or of returning to the "old Mark Hanna type of protection." Mr. Hughes, however, is just as fairly and honestly opposed to "the artificial protection given to special interests" as the framers of the Underwood tariff, but he certainly does not, as the Democrats do, advocate a return to the condition of economic depression that existed before the war, the return that existed before the war, the return that will come when Europe will be able to provide for herself and will flood...
...supremely finer moral sense of all Europe. Any attempt to reply to such a point of view will receive a blank stare and the answer that your inability to see in itself proves the national mental inferiority as exampled in you. That is a fairly unanswerable argument; the old one of saying a man is a fool because he is not wise enough to see he is a fool...