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Quoting from Mr. Leonard, "Prohibition is really nothing but an overgrown police regulation, puffed up with pseudo-religious bigotry and a dash of second-hand prairie Puritanism." I admire such an excellent command over the English language, but should like to point out that this statement is quite contrary to the facts involved. This "tyrannical decree" "In defiance of public opinion" was already in existence in thirty-three States of the Union before the Eighteenth Amendment was put before the people. The first Liquor Law was enacted in Maine more than fifty years ago. This was not an upstart regulation...
Under the guise of Juryman Seven Fannie Hurst has pronounced the verdict that "the mental stature of a very large part of the public is that of a moron and more startling still that "the public great overgrown baby--is--clamoring for its bananas...
...particular careful handling is necessary to avoid on one side the danger of "swamping" from overcrowding,--and on the other the menace of overpaternalism. The College cannot afford to become merely a pleasant place to spend four effortless years nor can it restrict itself to the requirements of an overgrown high school...
...growth of the CRIMSON in fifty years has gone side by side with that of Harvard. It has seen the elective system develop from the curriculum of an overgrown academy to that of a college. It has seen the college become a University. Finally, in watching the transition from college to University, It has seen the gradual appearance of undergraduate tolerance, the growth of interest in and cooperation with other universities. When fully realized, this free interplay of ideas is the one firm foundation on which to rest any "League of Youth...
...higher education. They think of the training as necessarily mechanical; they see no more advantage to be had from the School of Business Administration, here than from a common business school. What they forget is the comprehensive vision that is superimposed on the strictly practical groundwork. "Big Business", that overgrown bully of the modern world, will never be reformed until taken in hand by a few men with something better than personal motives. Only when theory is understood, as well as pratices and recognition made of the philosophy that underlies all commercial relations, can business be raised from an occupation...