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...statement, while welcoming the action, called on the Association to avoid certain dangers inherent in such an analysis by making its position clear, and suggested that the Association might perform a great service by joining with other groups in a broad gauge study of the entire problem of public education...
...quarter of a century ago. In solving the problem of the present, we can learn certain things from what I believe to be the blunders of the past. Wee can learn not to be misled by the merely trivial or accidental or falsely emotional. We can learn to avoid errors of method--as indeed we have learned, in refusing again to set such a trap for ourselves as Wilson's submarine policy, which put the peace of the United States at the mercy of the strategic calculations of the German High Command. But whatever the past may teach...
...countryside looked pleasantly open, and after drifting quite a way I thought I saw where I should land. Two farm hands had the same idea. We were all wrong as in spite of attempts on my part to avoid it I came down in a spinney of young oak trees, pulling up short about 20 ft. from the ground, hanging in my harness. I managed to get hold of a trunk, pull myself over to it, get out of the parachute harness and climb to the ground where I remained quite still until I was found...
...Harvard Committee against Military Intervention, I was sorry to read in Tuesday's Crimson the statement, which "expresses that committee's views on a pro-American policy." Obscurity, even when contributed by so honored a name as Charles A. Beard's, is something that an effective committee should strictly avoid...
Berlin's opinion of the importance of the war at sea was soon made plain. For months, hoping to avoid stirring up additional U. S. sympathy for Britain, German officialdom has spoken to and of the U. S. only in a low voice and in polite terms. Last week it changed its tactics, decided to see whether a threat would work. A Foreign Office spokesman warned: "The entire attention of the German Government is centred upon the American reaction to the Cross proposal. That proposal is nothing other than inciting America to commit a warlike act. I speak with...