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This destroyer service was performed on fully manned vessels ably commanded and officered by experienced men ready at all times to advise and assist the new hands; but, remarkable as was the achievement of these recruits, it was at least equalled by that of the college bred men who manned and successfully handled the little fleet of over one hundred sub-chasers that were sent "over there" to fight the elusive submarine. In my book, The Victory at Sea, a Chapter entitled American College Boys and Subchasers, opens with the following statement...
...process producing superior and respected public officials. But experience has shown that the educated man does not enter politics; the corruption he sees discourages him even as he casts his ballot. This condition of civic life is no recent development. Aristophanes wrote: "Our sterling townsmen, nobly born and nobly bred,...these we treat with scorn; worthless sons of worthless fathers, yellow scum, these for every task we, choose...
...novel deserves to be suppressed only when it has its "raison d'etre" in immorality or indecency. Such a ruling would affect home-bred American books fully, as often as the much-warned-against French ones. As for the Classics, in whatever language, the very fact that they are classics shows them to be sound and healthy, or they would not stand up today before public opinion, as fresh and vigorous as two or three centuries ago, when they were written...
Education will give us governors "nobly born and nobly bred" eventually, but what we need at once is practical political training. The college man has no political party and no political mind; Republican and Democratic Clubs have few members and fewer present at meetings. If we become interested in politics it is not as a profession but as a diversion, and by accident. The answer "Politics" to the question of a purpose in life brings the retort. "Yes, but what are you going...
...great need of America today," declared Mr. Eugene N. Foss, former governor of Massachusetts, to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday, "is to have college bred men with a true sense of public service actively interested in politics...