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...surgeon I have often been called on to try and prolong for a year or two a life which I know perfectly well is not worth prolonging--a life that is only a curse to its day and generation. The work that college men are doing in Labrador, by changing these lives by example, helps to make all the difference in the world. I have seen the proof of this, while they have been unloading coal vessels--a tough job, or digging foundations in a boulder bank glued together by heavy clay, or blasting out a water supply through granite...
...decorations bestowed on President Eliot. There are some interesting revisions in the manuscript of "America" which make it as we sing it today. The line which is now "The woods and templed hills" was first written "Our woods and sacred hills," while "Let all that breathe partake the sound prolong," was originally "Let all that breathe partake the scared song." In the same case with "America" is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's famous poem "Excelsior" written at three o'clock in the morning on the back of a letter from Wendell Phillips. In another case are parts of the original manuscript...
...wood in class offices. It will abolish the reward of popularity by vote, a custom not in harmony with the ideals of Harvard. It will make the administration of class affairs centralized and more efficient. There does not seem to be any logical excuse for our present system. Why prolong the life of this "white elephant...
Last spring, honest opposition to the League of Nations as it then stood--which stand the CRIMSON shared--offered a possibility of some document being evolved of more lasting value. Opposition now can only prolong the chaotic condition of all European countries, and continue the industrial foment of our own country...
...enthusiastic international radical in the capacity of Minister of Foreign Affairs, without a shred of patriotism, with no love either for Russia or for Germany, has tried to stop the war on the east by methods which are likely to be highly disastrous to the Russian proletariat, and to prolong instead of shorten the war. Trotsky may not be pro-German, but neither is he pro-Russian. Such a leader can never build up a new Russian nation. Kerensky was making an honest effort to do so, by getting all parties to work together. The task was too difficult...