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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Here, again, I mention these men merely to illustrate by example just what I mean in what I have to say to you tonight. It is the easiest thing in the world for any man, sitting in his study, to write virtuous articles in which he declaims against the greed of people who are engaged in destroying our forests or wasting our water supply. But it is an exceedingly difficult thing practically to work out a scheme of conservation. And this was just exactly what Messrs. Garfield and Pinchot did. Their work was done not only with zeal and disinterestedness...
...hand, and by the common-sense of the undergraduates on the other. To delay the formation of such a body by "nominations by petition" or futile discussions of the minutiae of ratification by everyone who is to be affected by the "direct jurisdiction over individual students" is, to say the least, shortsighted. Such a policy is part of the timid conservatism which killed the old Student Council. EDWARD EIRE HUNT...
...that to get rid of the enmity between races. We have gotten rid of wars between individual men, families and tribes. War among nations is the only kind left. In arguing against war we speak of the horrors and sorrows of war. We are answered by men who say, 'It's too bad, but war strengthens men--war has built up the Anglo-Saxon race...
...going to tackle this question? You say what we want in the first place is good government. That is not what we want. England has good government, but she has class government. Parliament is corrupt just like Congress. We are now passing through the same stages of government that England has passed through. Our democracy is being transformed into an aristocracy. What we want is representative government, government that represents the common interests of the people. That won't be good government for a good many generations. We want more than goodness in representatives. We want loyalty. The problem...
There are men of power and insight who condemn the University teams for their effect upon both these elements; for, they say, the strenuous physical work of athletes exhausts their vitality to a point where serious application to academic pursuits is impossible. They assert, moreover, that interest in the games draws the attention of every undergraduate away from his studies...