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...better hygienic conditions, and the degree of civilization existing in the United States has been the means of keeping us comparatively free from epidemics traceable to unsanitary methods of living. However fortunate we have been in the past, we cannot now afford to relax our vigilance against future peril. Two deaths have been reported in New York City, the first fatalities resulting from the typhus since 1892; health officials at that city have detected scores of vermin-bearing immigrants admitted through the port of Boston. Although the co-operation of the Italian Health Service shows important progress...
...Butler exaggerates the peril. It is fairly common experience that the college student or the schoolboy, if given free rein, will not go in too heavily for the subjects that teach one how to make a living. Their inclination is pretty strong for the snap courses that teach us how to live. New York Evening Post...
...annual dinner of the New York Harvard Club, Colonel W. Rand '88 was vigorously applauded when he spoke as follows: "Regarding the so-called 'Red peril,' no one who knows the history of Harvard need worry about her attitude. She stands for academic freedom and free and open discussion on all things by instructors and students. At times this freedom may bring embarrassing situations, but if these are met by tact they will do far less harm than suppression of free discussion. No Harvard man of today would wish it otherwise. I speak for the great body of Alumni...
...duty to the community, those who receive the most from the community have in return the greatest obligation. The danger is lest college men forget this obligation and regard college only as a help to personal advancement. Dr. Daniel Hunt Clare, speaking at the Colgate centennial, well expressed the peril...
...British Dominions contributed two outstanding figures in Hughes of Australia, and Borden of Canada. Premier Hughes, by means of his keen appreciation of the German menace in all its manifold phases, helped to sound more loudly everywhere the warning that civilization was in peril. Borden, grimly perservering in the single-minded purpose of winning the war, inspired the Empire with a deeper consecration to war duty. No statesman any where faced and mastered problems of greater complexity, and none held more consistently to the courage adopted in the very first moment of peril or caried through to more comprehensive realization...