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...news that an American senator has been refused permission to enter a foreign country because of his subversive politics, on the grounds that he would create a general feeling of unrest and insecurity, is enough in itself to confound the Boston Evening Transcript. It is warrant for a new crusade against the Bolshevist vipers in this country, who have now invaded the sanctity of the Senate itself. It is almost as if George Rex were accused of waving a red flag. Viewed alone, the news is endowed with a truly awful significance. If the American senate is harboring political heresy...
...such had manners as Senator King displayed are not to be tolerated. Senatorial interference with the noble work that is being done by Secretary Kellog and his marines might lead, if allowed to proceed unchastened, to all manner of trouble. President Coolidge by his stern, courageous shonce, and the Transcript by its clear and righteous indignation have once more come forward to save the country in a life or death situation...
...students who know not how to use their new liberty will abuse the "free periods," and will be harmed by them. But the men who are worthy this new trust--and their number will increase as time goes on--will turn it to most significant and availing account. Boston Transcript, March...
...temporarily more sane "Ask Me Another", according to those who know, is the latest of twentieth century parlor games. To be successful in this newest diversion one must be equipped with encyclopedic knowledge, a devilish curiosity, and a detailed information on subjects ranging from to quote examples from the Transcript Wagner to "four important breeds of dairy cattle." The dilettantes will accordingly, remain to blush unseen, for the last requirement of victory is a college education. Ignorance is no longer a la mode...
...underpayment for learning, the overpayment for size, both of these are so well known that they have become the standard tocsins of educational reform from coast to coast. The Transcript is eminently right, and if, in its editorial, the second point is so little clarified as to appear inconsistent with the first, that condition may fairly be ascribed to the eager haste with which the writer has rushed to the support of measures which have been written and agitated for so extensively during the past decade rather than to any immaturity of understanding in educational problems...