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There exists at the present time a danger, partly the result of ignorance, partly the result of a wilful misrepresentation of economic problems, in the phrase "keeping business booming." We have in our midst the petty business man and the many people who know no better, who profess and carefully maintain the principle of "business as usual." "Money must be kept in circulation. Industries of every kind must be maintained to their fullest capacity." What could be more absurd or harmful to the interests of our cause? We have in our country a definite available supply of goods. We have...
...Gradually, through the press of the country and other mediums, this truth is being established in the minds of thoughtful men and women. The question to decide, therefore, is not so much an academic discussion of responsibility, as "Do I want the Liberty Loan to succeed?" Few individuals who profess the title of Americans would answer anything but "Yes," and the only honest yes, when it is possible, means actual, material contributions...
...today perhaps than she ever has. It is necessary she should do so in a period as confused and prejudiced as the war has brought to us. Neutrality is a policy befitting a government in an official capacity, but not a sentiment which the individual can arbitrarily assume or profess. Our spirit of loyalty must be felt within and without the College itself, co-operation is as valuable in ideals as in business. Boston papers are daily publishing articles, seemingly unrelated the one to the other, rather contrary to the Harvard spirit of open-mindedness, and tending to destroy some...
...greater than does the militia. Furthermore, in no one military institution will 1,102 Harvard men enroll within three days. Indeed it is not unreasonable to say that no militia in this state can within three days enlist the services of 102 Harvard students. Yet these 1,102 students profess their willingness to undergo under the Harvard Battalion the same training as under the militia. G. C. DEMETER...
...depends on the man. The University possesses no philosophers' stone nor does it profess to have mastered a formula for transmuting base into precious metal. It does the best it can with the material that comes...