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...hoped that other Houses will follow the example which Lowell has set. The fact that Dunster is planning a similar exhibit indicates the popularity of the plan. A few good works, selected with discrimination, will afford as much pleasure and profit to the average student as will a whole museum...
...this type have more value as Indications of the prevailing sentiment than as practical measures. The real hope for disarmament at the present time appears to lie in the economic situation, not in speeches which are lost in the rear of the Oriental cannon. No nation can now afford the expense of large scale war construction. That fact may at least induce the Geneva Convention to extend the Washington agreement, and perhaps complete it by securing the adherence of France...
...fashioned strong-arm method; that in doing so she has violated (in spirit, if not in letter) her international obligations. On these matters there is a peculiar unanimity of agreement. Now the issue up to us and the rest of the world is just this: "Can we afford to let any nation get away with this sort of thing...
...than a far-Eastern circus and condescendingly advised everybody not to take what the newspapers say too seriously. This attitude I believe to be indefensible; the principles involved in the present situation are of enormous importance to the future of international relations, and no one with any intelligence can afford to sit smugly back and send forth occasional Bronx cheers...
...argument that the copyright should afford as much protection to the writer as the patent does to the inventor, is too cogent to be disregarded. The time has passed when international piracy was an unrebuked occurrence in the publishing world. Today, objections to so simple and natural a change are seldom from disinterested sources. Protection of his rights is a duty which society owes to the writer...