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Education is cited as a panacea for all our ills, but how can education fulfill our hopes unless there is more monetary stimulus to draw able men into the teaching profession? At present, there are innumerable examples of young college graduates, eminently fitted for an academic life, who shun such a future solely because they are unable to forego the comfort for themselves and their families which they are able so easily to earn in other fields...
...large aspects of government in a way that a purely technically trained man can not. Moreover, there are to be found in the colleges those men whose independent incomes make it possible for them to take a disinterested part in government. At present, however, many able university graduates shun political life. The reason, for this is two fold...
...general opinion among Americans seems to be that the League is something permanent; something that cannot be revoked, and for that reason they shun it; they consider it something terrible. Were the League this permanent affair that seems to be generally supposed, it truly would be well to hesitate before joining it. But it isn't. I don't aspire to be a politician, but in my travels I have received some impressions that I hope are correct; and these are that this League is not an irrevocable compact, but a means of getting together, of discussing and trying...
Perhaps Mr. Laski will explain his stand and elucidate clearly the principles he talks for. There may be some extenuating circumstances hidden from the unenlightened. If he cannot wholly justify his course of action, or takes it from love of the bizarre, let us shun him as a "Boudoir Bolshevist," a breed against which we have been warned. D. H. WORRALL...
This war is not horrible and a thing to be shunned as some old men, enwrapped in terror, would believe. Nor is it a youthful adventure, in which brave young men may aspire to the love-knots and golden spurs of knighthood. It is a hard and rather dirty business which must be carried out in the wisest way, with due attention to its quickest and complete accomplishment. It must be carried out by those who are most able to do so, by those who, having reached an age of manhood, assume the responsibility of defending the older...