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With the University Endowment Fund totals at $12,152,344, returning graduates on Commencement Day are expected to swell this sum materially. At present progress to the Endowment Fund has been slow but steady...
...least that has been collected in any recent year. The fault does not lie so much with those Freshmen who were present as with that large portion of the class which did not come to the steps of Widener. To make the Senior picnic a success, the Freshmen must swell their subscription in some way, and a drive conducted in the class, through its officers, seems the best method of reaching those who have not yet contributed...
...which Viscount Grey and Herbert Hoover were alleged to have been present was pointed out as an example of the interference of England in American politics. The proposed auction of the interned German liners afforded a convenient pretext for illustrating how America was attempting to sacrifice her ships to swell the British naval reserve. Each of the situations alleged to exist have been shown to be entirely fictitious. On the ethical principle that an implied lie is no less a lie than a similar assertion, the newspapers controlled by William Randolph Hearst are imbued with the spirit of falsehood...
...with the strength of 28,000 men, but men whose homes are outside of New England are not required to take part in the parade unless they desire. As a result, the number on active duty will be about 18,000, which coupled with discharged and wounded soldiers will swell the ranks...
...reproach in point of open-mindedness, integrity, intelligence and zeal. And then in the second place, we ought to feel and carefully to foster that elemental sentiment of gratitude and affection towards the Institution whose benefits we are here accepting. It is a sentiment which could, it is true, swell into a blind and fanatical loyalty; but also it is a sentiment without which, in due measure, any man becomes a monster...