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This Propaganda constitutes a great mediate danger, the extent of which he judiciary is in a position to decide. All individual rights rest on the maintence of government. The proposed measure is practical in that the laws should and will prevent a man from attempting to commit irreparable damage to the general welfare. This measure is in accord with the constitution and should be adoted
...heterogeneous population. Foreigners, illiterates, and negroes form a large percentage of our population and it is our duty to protect these classes against the radical agitator preaching force and violence. More than that, we must protoect the American people against this vicious propaganda which will cause them to commit acts of violence, which the agitator is too cowardly to commit. This danger to the American people must be eliminated
...Republican Senators thought they had the Treaty safely in its grave, they must be exceedingly surprised to find the supposed corpse very much alive and kicking. The gentlemen of the Upper House could not have seriously believed that the country would let them commit their crime without molestation. The fury of indignation that has swept not only America, but the whole world--except Germany, of course--cannot have startled them much; or if it did, it does not speak; well for their intelligence...
...apparent since 10 o'clock yesterday morning when the House convened that it would follow the lead of the Senate and definitely commit the nation to conflict, and the greater part of the long discussion was taken up by the short speeches of various members who supported the measure, but wished to put themselves on record as reluctantly accepting war as the only course of honor. The one final step which will make the resolution complete is the signature of President Wilson, which will be affixed early this morning...
...present system of learning lecture notes by heart, taking pages and pages of notes on outside reading to commit to memory, is futile, if that memorizing process is so mechanical that we forget all the facts after a quiz. Yet this is the system which is prevalent here at Harvard, and at other colleges throughout the country. With such methods of study there is little wonder that educators find their students submissively docile and without originality...