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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...would have come out strong this year for Wilson, as the representative of the liberal party in the campaign. But as a matter of fact, we are quite comfortable here, and have many preoccupations, and the issue between liberal and conservative principles in national politics does not greatly interest us. That may explain why the University has divided between Wilson and Hughes this year in about the same proportion as it does between the two parties in an ordinary Presidential year. There was a noticeable difference, however, in that many men who voted for Hughes professed to admire Wilson--which...
...clearly understood that we neither desire nor expect to vote for senators or members of the House of Representatives; they are the representatives of the people of Massachusetts. But the privilege of voting for the president is a thing so vital to all of us who are devoted to the higher interest of the nation and eager to play an honorable part in the great experiment of democratic government upon this continent that it appears more than probable that, with sufficient energy and able leadership, the legislature of Massachusetts will be prevailed upon to act favorably on a petition...
...attempt to secure the privilege for ourselves and future generations of college students of voting in presidential elections, without regard to the invidious question of whether or not we are entirely self-supporting, as the Massachusetts law, as it is applied at present, requires. Although most of us are inclined to concur in the reply which one of the Harvard men involved in last spring's election "frauds" is said to have made to the court's query as to his earning capacity, to wit, that it is unlimited, yet this stupid question should be asked, and so long...
...author takes us from the recruiting office on our own side of the Atlantic to the training camps of England, and thence to Gallipoli. We see the troops land and watch them fighting in the trenches and in "no-man's land," or trying to rest in their dug-outs. We grow to admire the British Tommy--Scotchman, Irishman, Newfoundlander, Canadian, Anzac or city-bred Londoner; and to respect the heathen Turk, his honest enemy...
...good for us, who are still at peace to keep before ourselves the bitter likeness of war. Mr. Gallishaw, by his able writing, makes the picture easy to look...