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Terrorism is one thing America will not tolerate, and if violence is attempted today, those who are responsible for it will not only themselves suffer, but the cause they profess will have been irreparably harmed...
...clear what the paramount problems of the next four years will be. The major political parties are slow to join issue on any of those which seem likely to be highly controversial. All candidates alike profess to stand for peace, retrenchment, and reform. We know that Mr. Hoover is a fair-minded and a progressive minded man. We belive that the problems of the future are most likely to be solved with success by the man who has successfully solved those of the past. I hope that the efforts of the Hoover League of Harvard will help to bring about...
Doubtless the authors of the above-mentioned communications will brand all who do not show a wordy zeal equal to their own as "Bolshevists," "traitors," and the like; but the problems which they profess so high-handedly to discuss and solve are not at all as simple as these youths would have us believe. The lads are doubtless well-meaning, but let us hope that they will learn that temperance, even when dealing with the most difficult problems, is a good thing. It comes with experience...
...lonely. Because somebody doesn't pull them out of their solitary state, they conceive the University as composed of but two classes, snobs and grinds. They forget that the men who come out on top started, in many cases, on the same level as themselves. They become cynical and profess to believe that the ordinary undergraduate is not worth knowing, that all he can talk about is athletics and parties. But in the hearts of every such man lies the feeling that he would exchange all his wisdom for wide friendship among his fellows...
...points where it is needed. No loyal citizen who sees and understands that fact can possibly favor a strike in an essential industry, when the Government stands ready with its agencies and machinery for the adjudication of all disputes. To refuse to submit to such adjudication is to profess a lack of confidence in our Government. That is not a loyal thing to do in war-time, when the Government is doing its best to so redirect our national energy as to enable us to win this war. When democracy is fighting for its very life, it does not show...