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...Germany's plight. Nothing is overlooked that might create a breach between Allied troops and the Armies of the United States. It is in these phases of present German activity that the University must take more of an interest than it has manifested up to the present time. If one will but take the trouble to examine the situation, it will be seen that we have a very real menace and one that cannot be lightly regarded...
...large or in the United States. Due to the war and the moving about of men in service we gradually found out that not only was the opinion of the College occasionally listened to in the United States, but even abroad it was taken into consideration as representative of one phase of the best opinion in America. Naturally I am not suggesting that Harvard undergraduates can have any great effect upon important national decisions, but I do most seriously suggest that the opinion of Harvard College does count--and however small its influence may be, it should not be withheld...
...One word more on the original subject of this communication. How can we truly feel sorry for a nation which, after signing the armistice, declares. "If the Allied peace terms force us too far, we can be avenged within a year by means of Bolshevism."? E. A. WHITNEY...
...One does not need to be an economic adventist to realize that this is a critical period in the history of the civilized world. Whether we believe that a new Heaven and a new earth are about to be ushered in, or that the old hell and the old world are to remain, we must see that the spirit of revolution is loose. This spirit will either lead us to make some definite steps in progress, or cause us to run down a steep place into the sea. It is not to be assumed that every change is necessarily...
...terrible instance of one of our own American shortcomings is illuminated. These outlaws (the Bolsheviki) are largely Russian Jews, whom we permitted to breed anarchy in the slums of New York. We have long had the problem of the city slum, and we have failed to deal with it. We have acquiesced in a twofold condition whereby great hordes of foreigners are unable--sometimes unwilling--to live according to American standards of living, and who, by their degradation no less than by their words, have poisoned the minds of other foreigners against this nation, which once had been the ideal...