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...Comment. Of course nearly every one had remarks to offer...
...Comment on the Yale windfall was chiefly congratulatory. There were some persons, however, who qualified their felicitations with the hope that young people would not be encouraged to express themselves "before they have thought and observed vitally, and during those years when they might better be acquiring a background that would enhance all that they might subsequently care to express." In a word, that Prof. Baker's expensive work at Yale be dedicated, not to the alleviation of yearnings of the undergraduate ego, but to the serious business of fostering a national drama...
Professor A. N. Holcombe, when asked to comment on President Coolidge's message last night, stressed the reference that was made to the question of negro suffrage in the South. He said, "From the standpoint of the student of government the most striking feature of the president's message is his reference to the constitutional rights of negroes. If the President means by this that the federal government should secure for southern negroes the right to vote he is reopening a question which has not been brought before congress since the defeat of the Force bill 25 years...
...sinful, and speculations upon the nature of God are condemned as the direst sort of heresy. While the Bible will always play an important part in the life of mankind, when it is invoked to check suggestions of improvements in the social order..or used to hamper free comment upon the universe, it becomes a deadly reactionary and illiberal document...
...view of the comment on the policies and on the character of Senator Lodge which has appeared on this page in the course of the last few years. The World refrains from comment now. It would be impossible to offer praise without hypocrisy or dispraise without offense...