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...worth-while extra-curricular activity. "Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Harvard plays football while civilization totters." The paper's policy favored peace above all, following the theory that the best way to maintain it was to stay as completely neutral as possible. Our duty was to take steps to avoid war in the future rather than to make victory certain for the Allies. The policy further opposed summer military camps as a needless measure...
...being consummate jazz pianists, Art and Rupe are way ahead of the average college swing musician when it comes to improvisation--which after all is one of the prime requisites of good jazz. Both of these boys, I'm glad to say, will go out of their way to avoid the imitative, elaborately tasteless style which has bogged down too many of our more promising keyboard artists. This goes for Rupe especially. He can't read a note of music, and he's such a lazy bum that I doubt if he'll ever bother to learn. However, what counts...
...speed we were going (31 knots) had a job to get there, and before they did a torpedo striking force from the Formidable, which we had seen before we sighted the battleship, attacked the enemy and his attention was well and truly distracted. He ceased fire and turned to avoid the torpedoes, and we drew out of range...
Face. In Peking, a tram conductor taxed a woman with trying to avoid paying her fare. In mortification she dismounted, stretched across the tracks, stopped all traffic for half an hour until she was cajoled away...
...didn't realize . . . the time would inevitably come when our growing power and position in the world would force us to accept the responsibility of such power and position. . . . We of the United States can no more evade shouldering our responsibility than a boy of 18 can avoid becoming a man by wearing short pants. The word 'isolation' means short pants for a grown-up United States...