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...Gridiron Club of Washington, high society of the Fourth Estate, host of Presidents and notables, privileged because its members wield the great battle-club of publicity, presented at its winter dinner an entertainment to pique the most jaded political palate...
...eager to enforce the Pax Romana with their broadswords. While it may be true in the present age there can be no peace in the world without an understanding among the English speaking nations that war shall be prohibited yet unless England and the United States stands prepared to wield more than "more suasion," such an agreement will have little real effectiveness...
...Vassar they wave a distaff over the heads of the professors, and threaten to force all their instructors to undergo grading by the student body. At New Haven they wield a stouter weapon. "The Saturday Evening Pest", a single sheet anonymously printed, has announced its purpose to bring about a complete change in the undergraduate point of view: "We believe--that Yale is preparing men not to live, but to make a living--that the life of the undergraduate is stupid, empty, and meaningless". At the same time the communication columns of the more conservative "News" have been rife with...
...must be careful, however", he continued, "not to misinterpret its lessons. We have been allotted a treaty navy. We must expect further conferences in the future. If we desire to wield the influence in future conferences that we did in the past one, we must maintain adequately our treaty navy. Though the Conference has, I am confident, aided the course of peace, I should be either a fool or a knave if I should say there will be no more wars...
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