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...next confronted with the usual arguments against preparedness. In this connection it needs only to be pointed out that there are other documents both subsequent and prior to Senator Owen's speech, which somewhat reduce the importance of this particular speech as a new discovery or bit of suppressed truth. The last communication is especially notable as a cool, and rather mature statement of one phase of Pacifism. To be a pacifist undoubtedly requires a struggle. It is a struggle with more or less natural feelings, with carefully inculcated ideas, with popular opinion. One disregards the facts who considers pacifism...
...other hand, it seems a bit strange that such marks as skull-caps should be necessary to distinguish the Freshmen from the rest. It is said that no one can tell a Harvard man much; but it is certain that one can tell a Freshman. If one is a Senior Advisor, one may tell him a great deal. The Princeton rules, however, follow their course to its logical end; the Freshmen may not wear the college colors, and thus bring them into disrepute; they may not jeopardize themselves by venturing from their rooms after nine o'clock; worse...
...motive behind this reform of Mayor Curley's is splendid, but the action seems a bit severe. In brief, it means that Boston theatres will not only be relieved of questionable dialogue and even more questionable displays; but the stages of the city will also be closed in future to many of the best productions of the older dramatists, and to almost all the works of more recent playwrights. Eugene O'Neill, for example, by the profanity regulation, will be completely barred. Such plays as "Rain" and "Anna Christie", not to mention "Liliom", all recognized as works of unusual merit...
...Catholic Partita Popolare had been organized by a little priest, Don Sturzo, and held the balance of power in the Parliament. The reactionary wing of the Vatican found itself in,thorough sympathy with the paternalistic nature of Fascism's aims. There was a good bit of cordial cooperation accomplished secretly. Filippo Cremonesi, Royal Commissioner appointed by Mussolini to succeed the Mayor of Rome, paid a call on Cardinal Pompili, Vicar of Rome, the officer whose predecessors had once ruled the city under the Papal States. His call was returned noncommittally (TiME, March 24, 1923). The Fascisti restored religious education...
...progressive race, and that the single standard of scholastic attainments as a requirement for admission was outgrown. "Do you not feel that a student who gives a portion of his time to activities such as debating and journalism should be accorded due consideration if his grades were a bit lower than those of another candidate who concentrated on studies alone?" he said. "I advocate no universal plan but let each college work out its own individual plan...