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...forceful, most impressive, peace-strike is one that is dedicated solely to the cause of peace and is participated in by speakers who have no other axes to grind. With Hapgood and Lovett leading today's discussion, an undue emphasis is bound to be placed upon the problems that confront labor, which will distort the supposed objective of the peace strike and diminish the singleness of purpose that such a strike should strive to attain...
...conclusion, may I point out the particular danger involved in one argument advanced. It is said that an emergency exists and, therefore, speed is necessary. There are a few great emergencies such as civil or foreign war which confront a nation from time to time and justify emergency measures, either by legislative or administrative action. But every instance in which an emergency is claimed to exist must be examined with the greatest care. Unless this is done, the country may proceed under the banner of emergency legislation down a road which leads to the abolition of democratic government...
Under the subject of an optional four year course, administrators confront the problem of reorganizing the first, second, and third year. all are agreed that it is a mistake to consider simply tacking on a fourth year...
...claim west of the Mississippi and sell at a profit in a few years. The world has come to demand more intensive training for the business of improving it, Lincoln Steffens notwithstanding. When the college man comes to realize this situation, he has awakened to the problems which confront him; and insofar as President Conant is able to carry out his precepts at Harvard, this student will be able to estimate his intellectual capacity...
Playing a tight man to man defense, they use a fast break which will confront the Feslermen with the exact sort of play with which they will be faced in the major games with Penn and Yale...