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...wisely bridged. It is to be hoped that this cognizance of the undergraduate attitude will be fostered at Harvard and throughout the country. It is only during the past two or three generations that the maxim, "Children should be seen and not heard," has been discarded as a relic of past ages. Now we are going one step farther, in recognizing that youth has a positive contribution to make, a contribution which can not be neglected...
...rooms on the ground floor there is a pathetic relic of Rheims Cathedral, which has recently been sent to the Museum by a French friend of the University, who was here last year. It is a bit of molten lead which had fallen down from the roof on to the pavement, catching one or two little scraps of stone work in its fall. The relic has sentimental but not artistic value...
...prove inconsistency in these blue laws and their enforcement would be child's play. They are enforced in Cambridge, and not at Longwood. The beaches on Sunday are scenes of amusements less innocent than tennis. How long are people of Massachusetts to suffer under this relic? When will Massachusetts catch up with the times...
...relic of the old time, when the ball was not always snapped back with the hands, has been eliminated. The rule which read, by one quick, continuous motion of the hands or of the foot' has been shortened by cutting out the words 'or the foot...
...irrationality of war must be obvious even to the militarist. Its decisions are inherently unjust or only occasionally and accidentally just. Might, despite the proverb, is not right. The traditional slogan, "In time of peace prepare for war" is a relic of mediaeval days of incessant warfare, and has no meaning today. There is no surer way to make other nations distrust us than to distrust them. Let us trust and be trusted...