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...afflict a university around which a crowded city has grown up seem a little less oppressive. Perhaps for his readers the visitation of the military may have a different effect, but in any case the occasion is a red-letter day in the Harvard calendar and the Vagabond welcomes to-day's visitors with a sincere, if somewhat selfish, greeting...
Time was when Germans dreamed of equaling Britain in sea power, but they learned to be less presumptuous at Versailles. Not long ago His Britannic Majesty's government made known that the U. S. is to-day the only nation which they will abide on a parity of naval strength (TIME, July 4, 1927, et seq.). Last week the North German Lloyd was challenging very modestly no more than a passenger speed record, yet even that was bold, and of all who went to watch the Bremen steam away none knew this better than STIMMING...
...There is only one man in England to-day who could lead the people on a new crusade and make them follow him. . . . That is the Prince of Wales, who is outside politics and compelled to keep silent...
...Britain will not exact a penny more from her European debtors than is exacted from her by the U. S. These unctuous words have enabled Honest John Bull to pass the blame for collecting War debts on to Uncle Shylock Sam. Without the Balfour Note, both France and Italy to-day might well be on hostile instead of friendly terms with Britain. Therefore, almost everyone in the House of Commons was flabbergasted when Spleenful Snowden cried...
...suspect that the typical Yale undergraduate is still almost indistinguishable from the typical Harvard man, or even from the typical Cornell man, and we like them all. We have yet to meet the undergraduate who would tolerate a "prominent" roommate whom he disliked. Doubtless the young Eli of to-day has less ambition to be a Jonathan Edwards than had the undergraduate of two centuries ago; but, after all, the colleges change, and should change, with the country. We don't recognize Mr. Pringle's picture...