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...worthy means to prevent future war we heartily support. Believing that if the students of America will refuse to participate in war, the attention of the country will be so focussed upon the question that it will be difficult for statesmen to lead us into another war, we take this stand. Since such schemes as the Bok Peace Plan are favored by the majority at the present, we believe that more energy should be devoted to their fulfillment, and we go further in the hope that a decisive attitude honestly held may supplement less extreme methods. CLARENOR R. BROOKS...
...personally ashamed of our Universities' record." he said "While Harvard students have been living in plenty, thousands in Europe have been starving, their pinched and haggard faces betraying a terrific struggle for existence. Many of us have despaired of help for Europe coming from her statesmen, all our hopes are centered in her students. By all her great traditions, Harvard belongs in Europe helping them." For the last three years. Professor Harlow has been in charge of the administration of the Student Friendship Fund in Asia Minor
What is this book? Gossip. Gossip about the wives, homes and eccentricities of officials and statesmen. It is eminently a book for serious-minded people. To the trifler and the gossip it is merely a few hours' diversion, such as they can manufacture less cleverly and without so "big" names in their own drawing-rooms. To the truly serious-minded man it is a treasury in which he can dig for nuggets of personality and little keys that unlock great doors of understanding...
...Vossische Zeitung, a professor of the University of Berne in Switzerland, made some interesting comments upon "the master of coke" in an address last week in Manhattan. Said he: "Give me two hours with my old friend, Hugo Stinnes and we will make peace better than you statesmen can make in two years. . . Stinnes is the mightiest personage in the German Empire. The Rockefeller of Germany has accepted no other title than that he gave himself-'the ironmaster.' . . . Stinnes never was an admirer of the Kaiser. In 1913 he refused to participate in the presentation of a memorial...
Hitherto, it was not comme il faut (in fact it was considered "indecent") for a royal prince to marry for love. The Crown Prince, breaker of precedents, loved his Princess, but he had to battle for her with Prince Yamagata, the most formidable of the Elder Statesmen-a fact which increased his popularity with the people...