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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...possible Magna Carta for world liberty" says the Transcript in hailing the covenant for a League of Nations as read by President Wilson art the Peace Conference on Friday. In the word "Possible" is to be found the true meaning of this document. In many ways it falls short of the ideals for which President Wilson has stood. We find in it no broad principle of religious toleration, no recognition of the part played by commerce and trade in starting a war. We are bewildered by the complex wording, by the vague statements which seem to settle nothing...
...Nathan Matthews discusses the legal aspects and the educational results of the Harvard-Technology decision, and on a later page the legal document itself is reproduced. The feeling that, after all, the University is in even more healthful a condition than could be expected is borne out by Professor Munro's report of the winter term, especially by his paragraph on "College standards in war-time...
...disseminate enemy propaganda under the guise of education. No; the fact is that Harvard is not yet infected with a blind patriotism which sweeps all before it, whether it be good or not. President Lowell's last report, with its promise of academic freedom, must become a historic document. That promise will not be lightly kept. We shall do well to remember that there is much to be had from the study of German and especially at this time...
...Senate adjourned Wednesday night to meet again at noon tomorrow. As the resolution must be returned to the Senate while that body is in session, the Senate while that body is in session, President Wilson will not receive the historical document for signature until this afternoon. From the moment of his approval war will...
Nowhere in the seven declarations of the platform is there a single word to indicate any opposition by its signers to the Reserve Officers' Training Corps or to preparedness; but from some fad or fancy the CRIMSON has construed the document into an expression of hostility and has turned loose its mighty wrath. The reason for this, I believe, can be made out from a consideration of the way in which the CRIMSON has come to be our heroic defender of the national honor...