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Bigelow and Owen Threaten...
...necessary to call attention in the existence at Harvard of book "hogs" in the librarian--the men who keep books for individual use while others are waiting, the men who take out books and "forget" to return them. It is preposterous to trial such men as irresponsible children--to threaten and plead with them. College men are intelligent enough to appreciate fair play, to understand, at least, the reason for the few, simple rules made by the libraries. "Hogging" a book for individual use cannot be excused as carelessness; it is pure selfishness. "Forgetting" to return a book goes much...
...Great Illusion" proved conclusively that under modern conditions even the victor in war would lose by war. It proved that thesis conclusively, and yet Europe went to war, and the war not only brought about material prostration that must be long continued, but it left conditions and passions that threaten further dire conflict, unless the psychology of civilized nations is altered...
...case is not at all parallel between the colonies and Ireland today. The colonies were not offered every indulgence, Home Rule, Dominion government if so there certainly would have been no Revolutionary war. The Irish are not bowed down under taxes that threaten to ruin trade. The colonies were not treacherous to the mother country in times of war (to wit: the French and Indian war) as were the Irish during the great war. In fact the points of similarity are so few that it is ridiculous to say that the cases are parallel...
...conscience, as we should say today, forced him to do his duty. At the second call he went to Nineveb. What was his mission there? Obviously to call the people to repentance. Never, as you may observe, was he informed that Nineveh would be destroyed, or even directed to threaten the people with overthrow. But it was, of course, understood that calamity would befall them if they did not repent--yet clearly only if they did not do so. The object was repentance, not destruction. The threat of the consequences of their sin was the means of bringing about reform...