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Since the undergraduate is addicted to both types of newspaper--worthless and worth-while--it is doubly important that he should learn to read the press intelligently. He must, furthermore, learn to do this for himself, since we have not at present a course such as Mr. Allen has suggested. Only when, through knowledge gained from reliable sources, we really understand how to picture "the world about us--can we play our part in it intelligently and independently," says Mr. Allen. In the process we shall force the newspapers to change their opinion as to "what the public wants...
...used to be the belieef of every Harvard undergraduate that Yale and Princeton were worthless as educational centers. The feeling of rivalry was as misguided as to become foolish. All this has for the most part gone. Today we have a keen rivalry but it is within the bounds of common sense...
...Liberals, and one, at Woolwich, was saved for the Coalition by resumed, there can be no possible harm in signing the agreement and pleasing Labor. True, the Commons may turn down the agreement, the Kronstadt, uprising may be successful, or the courts may rule the compact worthless, yet Lloyd George will have done his best for Labor...
...order were content to deal with the situation by a system of reprisals, even if they were justified? They would instinctively reject such a system because so far in history it has never succeeded in administering justice satisfactorily; and it never will. Law that people fear and hate is worthless so far as justice is concerned. In modern times any community that believes in the eye for an eye doctrine must be either struggling for existence without any law or police, or must be in error. Reprisals have no place even in martial law; and the injustice in Ireland...
...sake of paying high rates on savings, commercial loans have been sought at exhorbitant rates indicative of the utmost insecurity. There seems little doubt that practices approximating extortion have been countenanced. Mismanagement and poor judgment have led to the accumulation of resources far from liquid, slow loans, worthless paper, dubious realty holdings, and notes impossible to collect...