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...eyes of the world to a point which no civilized Caucasian nation ever reached before. The American government has not one friend among the peoples of the world today, and those who dare to maintain that American ideals are as sound as they ever were can only plead that the present administration does not represent the true state of public opinion in the country. If we are not to stand self-confessed as willing to surrender to anyone who may threaten us, be they labor leaders within our borders or arrogant governments without, it is absolutely necessary that we turn...
Progress marches slowly; and some day it may be hoped that dwellers in the Yard will not have to plead for the elementary comfort. Else, most certainly and desirably, they who refuse this demand, will one day enjoy heat in abundance...
This is the first time that the complaints have been seriously considered by the Faculty. Since the Student Council, ostensibly the mediator between students and Faculty, is not allowed to plead directly before the Faculty but must content itself with sending to it a written petition, there is always considerable difficulty in obtaining a hearing for a complaint. The oral exams. have been overhauled by previous Student Councils, but their recommendations have been shelved or blocked in some department before they ever reached the Faculty. By the time that the class of 1915, after being in the toils for three...
...class elections held yesterday the undergraduate voters had an opportunity to atone for the shamefully slender number of ballots cast last year, when the voting was held during an early October snowstorm. Yesterday, however, when no voter could plead inclement weather as an excuse for his absence from the polls, the number of ballots cast was again deplorably small. This disappointment is made cheerful only by the fact that those who did vote selected officers of energy and ability. With each undergraduate supporting the administration, and with the class coffers well cared for, there is every reason why the camaraderie...
...Speakers' Club of discussing and gaining intimate knowledge of the issues of today is in line with this modernist movement. And the project begins auspiciously with an address by Professor Taft, who has not only been in the current of things but has guided its trend. He comes to plead the necessity of the increase of civic interest among students. The authority of so eminent a jurist, if not the eagerness of undergraduates, should give him a numerous and well-disposed audience...