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...peace and quiet. Some use it for only an hour or two at a time, but there are many students, especially those working on reports, who want to gather their books around them and "set". For these, ten o'clock in the evening comes much too soon. They are deep in point 2, or they are on the trail of the reasons for point 3. They are certainly not ready for bed at ten o'clock. But when the lights go out in Widener they must either break the thread of their work until next day, wasting a valuable hour...
...shows that they only erred in having no idea as to its possibilities. Labrador is the nearest port of America to Europe. It is 1600 miles distant from Ireland. Its coast is easy of approach in the summer, there being no sand banks, and all its innumerable harbors having deep water. Sir William MacGreggor and I collected speciments of its flora and sent them to Kew, England, for a report on their ability to support reindeer; the report was absolutely favorable. Everyone who knows Labrador, knows that from Cape Chidley itself, even on the Island, to the most southern boundary...
...recollection of what Socrates said about the value of a gad-fly in stirring up the Athenians, I have turned to the Century Dictionary for a description of the-beast. I find that it is "very active, voracious, blood-thirsty, with great powers of biting. The bite is deep and painful, often drawing blood, though not poisonous...
...March "Gad-fly" one of these deep-biting and blood-thirsty creatures? Hardly. It opens with a moderate and sensible article on "Peace-Time Responsibilities of Pacifists." Believing that war is preventable, Mr. Wood draws an interesting analogy between the flood-prevention work of a civil engineer on the banks of the Mississippi, and the various opportunities for prevention work which are now open to lovers of peace. The tone of the essay is conciliatory and well-bred. It neither barks nor bites...
...marked during the War, no longer existed. We were especially disappointed in the disagreement of the United States Senate with the President over the treaty. We could not see why America should be unwilling to help solve the great post bellum problems. But there was in France no deep or widespread ill-feeling for the United States because we realized that the United States had entered the conflict with such disinterested motives and under such unusual conditions. Above all, there was such a deep feeling of gratitude for America's help in the War that minor disappointments became insignificant. Then...