Word: certain
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Could it be that Hitler and his Italian stooge are afraid that the United States is going to join with England in the present war? Apparently the potential strength of America is quite a worry to the bigwigs of Europe. It is certain that Italy would never offer to give anything away unless she was gaining greater things. Or is it that the Axis has told Japan to keep us busy in the Far East while it takes care of England? A third reason behind this strange proposal might be that Japan feels that she must push the issue...
Casting a "protest" vote does not appeal to many persons. It is mainly for those who consider a certain abstract principle more important than actual effectiveness. For them, Mr. Thomas is the ideal man; he has often shunned some of labor's most effective partisans because of disagreement over abstract questions...
...this extent we of the Harvard Group are in whole-hearted agreement with the views expressed by President Butler in his recent address to the Columbia faculties. But there are certain statements in that address with respect to the meaning of academic freedom with which we most emphatically disagree...
Registration is not simply a matter of filling out a card. Registrars are required to interview each registrant, fill out personally for them the answers to every question on the form, and in addition make certain personal observations on the registrant...
...recent times, in the last decade, this right of free education that has become a part of the national life in our land has taken on an added significance because of certain events in certain other lands. For a very large portion of the world that right no longer exists. Almost the first freedom to be destroyed, as dictators take control, is the freedom of learning. Tyranny hates and fears no thing more than the free exchange of ideas, the free play of the mind that comes from education." Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, at Hyde Park on Saturday...