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...pacifistic proposals the benefit of the doubt," because the desertion of her cause by Britain has rendered any other course of action suicidal. A world which can still put faith in the pious words of Europe's champion treaty-breaker will give Germany the twenty-five year breathing-spell she needs so urgently, while M. Francon's question-how does the presence of 90,000 troops in the Rhineland serve the cause of peace-goes unanswered...
...academic freedom. The country at large frets at "fads and fancies" in our colleges and universities and is demanding a more utilitarian product. Even some very thoughtful persons are wondering if science has not moved too fast for the world in the last century and if a "breathing-spell" on research and invention should not be declared...
Democracy to me does not spell uniformity...
...much that his ideals had died, but warped into forms unrecognizable to himself, and in the procedure twisted askew the axis of his private life." And even schoolboys still struggling- with Caesar's Commentaries can tell Author Pratt he is wrong to write ''The Roman spell was broke," or ''The Gauls were beat...
This week Cambridge has had another cold spell, and undergraduates have had some more skating on ice which was dangerously thin and appallingly rough, it is true but still ice. It is and that there is nothing nearer than the Ural Mountains to protect Cambridge from an East Wind. It has certainly seemed so to us walking to nine o'clock lectures these last few mornings...