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...university or taking up other non-military work. I think we all must realize that a certain insidious form of silent pressure is brought to bear on such men to follow the crowd and enlist somewhere, somehow. A few men are anxious to enlist in order to avoid conscription. This attitude is in many ways reprehensible. It unjustly discredits conscription which, in reality ought to result in saving every man from the charge of being a slacker...
Printed ballots will be furnished at the polls. These should be plainly marked to avoid cancellation...
...winter wheat crop, one-third of which is ruined, we probably will not even be able to raise the six and one-half bushels of wheat per capita which the people of the United States consume annually. To meet the emergency, every effort must be made to stimulate production, avoid waste, and better the distribution of articles of food. The problem of transportation includes the transportation of seeds, tools, fertilizers and labor to the sections of the country, as well as the transporting of the crops raised. The problem of water transportation will be met in part by diverting...
Most attractive, on the whole, among the sonnets I find Mr. Cowley's except "From the Diary of a Restoration Gentleman," which successfully imprisons within fixed form the loose and rambling idiom of Samuel Pepys. Some change of the second line which would avoid the double use in the rhyme position of the word "approach" would leave a sonnet of memorable power, beauty, and satirical point. Although Mr. MacVeagh's "Sonnet" is strongly reminiscent of Mr. E. A. Robinson's poetry, it is interesting and impressive in and for itself. In Mr. Norris's sonnet on the sonnet...
...cannot believe that Harvard men would not flock to the standard the moment any definite action was taken. We cannot believe that Mr. Cecil H. Smith and his disciples are ardent pro-Germans. But for the good of the University, the country and the world, let us try to avoid such a hindering spirit, and to put in its place an honest desire to help the country up on its feet, eventually to enforce a lasting peace. PAUL W. INGRAHAM...