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...Will not our soldiers have died in vain clipping the claws of the German beast if the claws of the beasts sullenly stirring in England, Japan, Italy and innumerable lesser countries are permitted to grow unchecked? And the check is the League of Nations...
Having maintained an abashed silence for over a week in the vain hope that the CRIMSON might see fit to contradict the somewhat startling assertions that were nonchalantly dropped at our thresholds on the morning of Friday, November 14th, we are taking the liberty of questioning the veracity of the same...
...Boston College ten-yard line by a series of desperate rushes, and then was thrown back three times by the stiffened Cavanaugh defense, La Roche attempted to make fourth down on a forward pass. And later, on another fourth down, he sent his backs through tackle in a vain effort to overwhelm the Boston line by sheer weight. Finally Acosta, at centre, showed himself incapable of filling Tim Callahan's position in the snap-back position Worried by the aggressive Boston centre, his passes were erratic...
...husky nation. The failure of the treaty prolongs war and thirst. Just at the time when people are looking forward to a different and more liberal order of things has the Senate so cynically proved to us that the sacrifices of the last two years have been in vain. Little did the poor unsuspecting public dream that the partisans of party politics would carry matters so far. Little did they think that a senator of the United States would place his party before his cup. But there are whisperings abroad that those same thirst-inspiring senators have "a jug 'neath...
Your editorial on universal military training does not, I hope, express the general attitude of Harvard on the subject. Some of us here think that the war has not been fought in vain...