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...dreams of Columbus and the Cabots, of Gilbert and Hudson, thwarted by the inconvenient location of America, are likely to be fulfilled by the modern ingenuity which finds land no obstacle to rapid trasportation. The "Northwest Passage", which lured countless mariners to peril and hardship, may now be opened by the persistent navigators...
...nights. The war, with all its suffering and atrocities, has been an anesthetic. We have become too accustomed to the cries of the oppressed to have them vibrate painfully upon our nerves and conscience. The enthusiasm produced in the fever of the war days has given place to the peril of waning idealism. Nothing could be more dangerous, if these are the facts, than to close our minds and hearts, and to drift on. I am not a prophet of pessimism, but I am aware of that ancient saying: "He who cries peace, peace, when there is no peace, shall...
...comes frankly because ugly words spoken about his France had reached his quiet seashore retreat; and his mission, "which is a mission from no one and a journey with no personal end" is an effort to reunite France and America against a peril greater than that...
...more allusion to the illusion, and we have done. As the moth must have its yellow flame, so must Harvard have its yellow peril; yet when the tempting colors have been smudged by rains, and the screaming message out-screamed by the allurements of the Tiddledewinks team, then will we listen one again, indulgently smiling, to echoes of hollow laughter along Mount Auburn street, reverberated from the recesses of an empty stein...
...main danger to the three historic universities of the east--Harvard, Yale and Princeton--is the danger of becoming inbred. Harvard, it would seem, definitely met that peril some years ago, when it shook off many of its Boston inhibitions and, through broadening its entrance examinations, made a clear bid for matriculants from high schools all over the country. Princeton, with its recent limitation of enrollment, may be just about to face the real danger of localization of influence. Yale, through calling to its presidency James Rowland Angell, a graduate of the University of Michigan and the former dean...