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...Republican and Democratic parties (particularly the former) are speaking, in the same breath, to the altruistic motives of the people! Of course, they know that if they can focus the people's minds on the league and keep them in idle debate over this "Issue" that they won't concern themselves with the genuine international problems, with the abolition of the conditions that maintain the institution of war as well as the national problems of the high cost of living, the problems of capital and labor, the degradation of representative government in Albany, the infamous rule of Attorney General Palmer...
...either cares about his leaders or is entirely indifferent to them. He either votes or lets somebody else elect his own officers. This is "vote week" at the University and both elections will show the interest of Harvard men in their own business. The class elections today directly concern the members of 1922 and 1923; the straw vote tomorrow concerns all the University. It is useless to moralize on the virtue of voting for class officers. The constitutions have finally taken care of the yearly indifference by requiring 60 percent of the class to vote in a valid election...
...such a principle that the agreement is to be based. Significant it is to note that the much argued question of recognition or non-recognition of the Moscow government goes unmentioned. The agreement is founded on immediate need. It does not concern itself with Bolshevist principles. It aims at the very heart of the problem of starving Europe, and heroin lies its merit...
...continue to live in it if we are to set about the business of cure. This it is which gives to the American election an importance far transcending the boundaries of the United States. Its conduct is the affair of the American people alone, but its issue is the concern of all the world. Our interest is perhaps deeper than that of other countries, and the reason for it naturally lies in our common history and in ideals long shared. These together give us the right to await the result with confidence, sure that the deep humanity and sturdy rectitude...
...Faculty and student body assembled in Brattle Hall, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 3d, 1920, that members of the House of Representatives confine their attention to American problems, and particularly that they avoid by official or unofficial act any interference in the so-called Irish question, which is not the proper concern of any department of the Government of the United States, and least of all that of the House of Representatives of the United States...