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...Avoid this imbecility...
...boarding a street-car during the rush-hours, I have found it possible to avoid the conductor's eye and thus arrive free in Boston, then, by coming forward boldly and demanding a transfer, it is equally easy to obtain return passage to Cambridge...
...higher advantages to the relatively few students who want them and can profit by them. It is natural that Harvard should wish to be one of these latter colleges; it is equipped to offer that service, and by limiting itself to those who can best profit thereby, it will avoid wastage through conflict with the institutions which prefer to remain open to all. A limitation of that sort is perhaps "aristocratic", but it is the sort of aristocracy to which no one can object. It will put a premium on good minds...
...French will evacuate the Ruhr. The German Nationalists (royalists) have tried to force the Reichstag into an aggressive policy by issuing an ultimatum. "Our cup of humiliation is full to the brim, and indignation has come to the boiling point. Everywhere there is sentiment for forcible action-and to avoid responsibility the Government should act, thereby placing the consequences squarely upon the French and Belgians." The "Allies." The Belgians and Italians are rather nervous about the whole situation. The former are alarmed at the determination displayed by both the French and the Germans, and are frankly pessimistic about the eventual...
General Edwards wants his country to avoid "peace at any price" or "peace with dishonor". So do ninety-nine out of a hundred of the pacifists he attacks. The avoidance of dishonorable peace does not, however, require incessant preparation for war nor a willingness to fight at the drop of the hat. It merely asks us to fight only when every conceivable honorable expedient has been tried to keep the country out of war. Countries armed to the teeth and with a conscious sense of military power are apt to be less fertile in finding and interested in following expedients...