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Governor McCall has done well to communicate to the authorities at Halifax the expression of his keenest sympathy, with the assurance that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts will go to the limit in extending to the stricken people every sort of succor or assistance that is open to us. The ties between Nova Scotia and its capital and our State and city are close and warm. The consequences of the disaster, in physical suffering and very likely in hunger, must be instant and terrible. Let us start our help at once. The railway and the sea should bear it even before...
...draft age were lowered to nineteen, it seems highly probable that Harvard would be overtaken by the same sort of situation as that which has developed during these last three years at Oxford and Cambridge. I have been told that at Oxford at the present moment there are no more than 120 undergraduates; the situation at Cambridge being approximately the same. The dons, or, as we should say, the faculty, have had their incomes from all sources reduced at least one-half or two-thirds in most cases. While it is difficult to estimate situations of this sort before-hand...
...present time than drastic schemes. We are already suffering seriously from half measures. The plan presents difficulties, of course. One is that it requires a good teaching staff; and it would be far from easy to secure the right men. On the other hand, any plan of this sort would have to be put in hand several months in advance, and I cannot believe that it would be impossible, with fair notice, to secure the men we wanted...
...more from the standpoint of maintaining intact the existing bureaucratic government than from any other angle. It is not that they are in terror of being overwhelmed in the field, but the first care of a autocrat is always for his own skin, and there is no telling what sort of backfire another year of war might start at home. The governing classes in Germany know that dickering with the Bolshevlki is playing with fire so far as their own bureaucratic interests are concerned. --Boston Herald...
...very likely that they will play, certainly not to the extent they would if a seven existed. The fact that there is a team to try for, induces many men to come out, and stay out, even though unsuccessful at first. Such students will miss the incentive that any sort of University team would...