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...Felix Frankfurter -was like a can of TNT dropped into a Washington drawing room. He turned his deep burning eyes on his fellow guests and unleashed his facile tongue for the sport of bating reactionaries. Nothing did he enjoy more than predicting the swift destruction which the Administration would wreak on the established order. When he passed, Tory hearts lay beneath their starched shirt fronts palpitating and bleeding. He was the making of many a party...
...which feels a need for it. But to require a man, in the most skeptical stage of his life, to listen to backward doctrines is injurious in the extreme. He will seek to satisfy the needs religion should fill in other, less beneficial ways; and the results will surely wreak harm to an age that cannot withstand many more drains on the morals, the fairness to its students, and out of consideration for society. Princeton should abolish compulsory attendance at chapel, and give religion a chance to meet the challenge of the times...
When Dartmouth's baseball team comes to town tomorrow for the second game of the Crimson-Green series, Fred Mitchell's Varsity will have a chance to retrieve the 9-1 scalping the Indians handed them last Saturday. But if they do wreak vengeance on the Hanoverians, then Dartmouth's hopes of taking the League pennant will go blowing out into space...
Germany is fighting for a system which will put her back on her feet with the consent of a majority of her people. She may be basing her struggle on wrong premises as William Jennings Bryan once did. Like his silver conceptions, Germany's military views may wreak harm on others, but ahead of her lies the one purpose of regaining her pedestal in the world. As long as she keeps her experiments within her borders, it is no concern of this or any other country. But the moment her policies endanger the life and happiness of others, it becomes...
...Politicians, Teachers, and Schoolbooks" are surveyed with a practised eye by P. A. Knowlton, the editor of the Educational department of the MacMillan Company. Citing the havoc which politicians, the public, and teachers themselves wreak upon schoolbooks by false economy and attempts to make texts conform to local or professional prejudices, Mr. Knowiton suggests very convincingly the need for a reform of his evil which has been a part of free education since its inception...