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...This section has lost its supremacy in the realm of commerce and it may lose it in the realm of education too. Indeed, I believe that it will inevitably lose it if it dissinates its energies and scatters its forces. Its greatest asset is its record of achievement and its tradition of high purpose and exalted aim. Let us continue to aim high. If we do so and are properly supported we can build up in this community one of the very greatest, if not the greatest centres to be found anywhere in the world of science, pure and applied...
Professor G. Lowes Dickinson, of Oxford University, would heartily agree. He finds that there are hardly more than two British papers which dare defend the conscientious objectors to military service or to propose peace. Meetings for discussion of peace are broken up by rowdies. The Defence-of-the-Realm. Act has been twisted from its purpose of preventing information from reaching the enemy into a gag-law to prevent intelligent criticism of public interests...
...than either the sentimentalism of the one or the fatalism of the other of the two authors whom Mr. Gowdy is consciously or unconsciously imitating. Again, many of the purely descriptive passages contain figures which are unquestionably striking. But Mr. Gowdy has not, usually, carried suggestive force beyond the realm of description into the words of his characters; and he labors under the additional handicap of a well-worn plot...
...boundary line between farce and comedy is wavering and vague; otherwise Mr. Harcourt's latest play could never be labelled as it is--a comedy, for this bit of drollery lies in that no-man's land between the two,--invading now the territory of comedy, again the realm of farce...
Such men as Mahan and Brickley were our Caesars and our generals. With them victory became synonomous with contest. Those were our palmy days when undergraduates sat in the Stadium with a feeling of assurance that defeat was outside the realm of probability...