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...question would be far more worthy of serious discussion if its presentation at this time were not so obviously part of the wide-spread "red" scare which still grips no small portion of our population. We are paying too much attention to the "red" menace as it is; to put through such a bill at this time would make us the laughing stock of all sensible people...
...more of our selves is dangerous. We, as a nation, pay too much stress on "what the public thinks" about us; we indulge too freely our inherent propensity for being in the public eye. Unfortunately, the cure is not so simple as the diagnosis. Only the wide-spread recognition of the injurious effects of too much "publicity" will result in proper repressive measures. Consequently it behooves each one of us to curb his public "I" to the utmost in the interests of general sanity...
...feel competent to judge. In any case I suggest that those who are acquainted with Harvard men whom they consider to be snobs attribute the fact of snobbishness to the men themselves rather then to the college from which they were graduated. If there exists a wide-spread belief outside New England to the effect that Harvard College is a manufactory of snobs, the quickest way to remove hostility to Harvard arising from such a cause is to disabuse the popular mind of such a notion, and the surest way to do this is not by propaganda but by example...
...many evils contributing to our present array of social problems, none is more dangerous than illiteracy, which not only is wide-spread in the United States, but is rapidly increasing. Many of our labor troubles can be directly traced to the appalling prevalence of this evil; it is largely responsible for the existence of our defective and criminal classes; it multiplies agitators and radicals; it is the cause of thousands of industrial accidents...
Lawrence J. Henderson is one of the most distinguished members of the University teaching staff, and his researches in the application of chemistry to biology and medicine have attracted wide-spread attention among students of these subjects. He was born in 1878, was graduated from Harvard College in 1898 and from the Medical School in 1902, spent two years doing post-graduate work at the University of Strasbourg and since then has taught at the University...