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...nation had a. better reason to speak than the editor of the Nation (weekly), Oswald Garrison Villard, for whom pacifism is a supreme virtue.* To him, the U. S. participation in the World War was a crime-he said so at the time and had some of his writings barred from the U. S. mails-to him, the Versailles peace settlement was an atrocity; to him, the last ten years have been a mess-an inevitable mess, resulting from a noxious disease. Last week was clearly his week and he wrote with the wrath of a decade...
...Other issues championed by Editor Villard, who is a gentleman in the quaintly literal sense of the word: tolerance and uplift of the Negro, free trade, women's suffrage, child labor laws, free speech. The journalistic tradition of which he is heir was originally voiced by his Abolitionist grandfather, William Lloyd Garrison, founder of the Liberator: "I am in earnest-I will not equivocate-I will not ex-cuse-I will not retreat a single inch- AND I WILL BE HEARD...
...question. The first of the two principal dries that are struck in the treatment is the impossibility of expecting such a frail and fallible institution as a committee of the faculty to apply a rule which in itself may be inoffensive. This, for example, worries Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard who fears that he University is going to lose its emprotorgued, awkward, loose-Haibed, ill-groomed" Abraham Lincolns...
...will exclude most of the valuable men in college, the intellectuals because they may fail to make final clubs, the Jews because they may not be athletes, the commutes because they may not add the local color that Brown gives to Harvard. The assumption is made by even Mr. Villard that the "assimilable" man is nothing but the "clubbable" man. That this betrays almost complete failure to understand the meaning of the Student Council report must be obvious. There is a curious confusion in the meanings of the word "social" which leads to a more pernicious confusion of thought...
...feature article in this issue is by Oswald Garrison Villard '93, editor of the Nation, on the recent limitation of admissions to the University. It also contains an interview with Henry Pennypacker '99, Chairman of the Committee on Admissions, on the same subject...