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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...editors that the qualities that make vital all literature exist in what we roughly classify as poetry, to a far higher degree than in what, with equal roughness, we classify as prose. As an ex-editor, I sympathize with their professional zeal for "balance," while realizing that this word is merely a euphemism to justify an attempt to meet all tastes...
Pending the declaration of war by Congress, activities in the University are continuing very much as usual, although the tension of the situation has caused interest in everything but military organizations to lag. A certain tendency, however, to continue "business as usual" until definite word is received from Washington is apparent...
Dean Briggs, in whom the Athletic Committee has placed the power to cancel all the intercollegiate contests in which the University is concerned whenever the occasion seems to require it, stated yesterday to a CRIMSON reporter that no definite action would be taken in this direction until word had been received of the actual declaration of war. There is little doubt but that all sports will be stopped as soon as that declaration is made, however, and Yale and Princeton will take similar action...
...thought by some that Britain and France wish to engage freely a large number of Chinese laborers; this, however, they were free to do without the necessity of bringing China into the Entente group. She has no navy and her army is relatively a negligible quantity. In a word it seems easy to determine why China for her part should consent to a rupture of relations with Germany, but what advantage the Allies look for is not so patent...
...close his eyes to any judgement of men. Such blindness would be the very antithesis of knowledge. Democracy is not equivalent to genial joviality. It is something deeper and more enduring. Those who accuse Harvard of lack of democracy fail to understand the spirit or the meaning of the word...