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...nineteenth century, restitution for French spoliation of American commerce was ultimately assumed by the United States itself in connection with the Louisiana Purchase. The final decision on the Alabama claims was not rendered for a decade after that famous vessel began her depredations upon our Federal shipping during the Civil War. In that American claims against the British government for seizure of goods in the first part of the European war are still pending, there is danger that the traditional delay in such matters will be repeated...
...question as to what he thought were the chances for lower prices, Mr. Bancroft said, "It is a mistake for us to feel that prices are going to get back within a few months to a level which it took over twelve years to reach after the Civil War. Some people think that prices will never go back to this level, but I believe they are mistaken. However, it will take a long time for them to get there. Another point which might be made here is that this talk about the return of business activity being dependent upon...
...something peculiar to Harvard which arouses all this vehemence? Of course there must be. It is that quality of mind which in its best is Harvard's most precious jewel and which at its worst is her least attractive characteristic. "Harvard Indifference" was a bone of contention before the Civil War', in the days when Theodore Roosevelt drove a dog cart around the Yard, and in my own time, twenty-five years ago. As to challenging its existence--one might as well attempt to deny successfully that there was any difference between the general atmosphere surrounding the Archbishop of Canterbury...
...something peculiar to Harvard which arouses all this vehemence? Of course there must be. It is that quality of mind which in its best is Harvard's most precious jewel and which at its worst is her least attractive characteristic. "Harvard Indifference" was a bone of contention before the Civil War', in the days when Theodore Roosevelt drove a dog cart around the Yard, and in my own time, twenty-five years ago. As to challenging its existence--one might as well attempt to deny successfully that there was any difference between the general atmosphere surrounding the Archbishop of Canterbury...
...recent exposures concerning the alleged questionable proceedings of the Department of Justice are sufficiently grave to demand the immediate attention of every exponent of civil liberty. The Sacco-Vanzetti case, the fall of the Italian, Salsedo, from the fourteenth story of the offices of the Department, the extended list of its illegal practices compiled by such lawyers as Zachariah Chafee, Felix Frankfurter, and Dean Pound of the Law School, cannot fail to arouse the suspicion that "where there is smoke there is fire". Specifically, the Department is charged with wanton destruction of property; arrest without warrant; illegal imprisonment without trial...