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...confirmed immediately. Swift ratification would have much the effect of a great approving public referendum on the work of the conference, and the influence of immediate ratification on other countries can hardly be over-estimated. On the other hand a long drawn-out discussion would have a tendency to destroy confidence in the pact. With this in view it behooves the Administration to force the issue, in order that the country may present to the world an appearance of undivided support of the conference...
...system. It is the worship of mediocrity. The organizing of the modern industrial state should be the business of the best men available, an aristocracy of brains and technique. The business system today is functioning in a moral vacuum, and unless we succeed in moralizing it, it will eventually destroy our civilization...
...destructive bombs and a gun that could carry shells I know not how many miles; but it was so lamentably ignorant of human nature that it thought that it could violate women, enslave men, murder defenceless children, and make war on churches, libraries, and hospitals, in order to destroy a commercial rival, and that the civilized world would look on and see it done with only feeble and meaningless protests...
...that it is surprising because everything tends to destroy whatever loyalty the men might have. When they go to some other institution, they nearly always support it whole-heartedly. In the case of Harvard, they are given to understand, both here and among alumni out over the country, that they "do not quite belong". To quote only the instance nearest to the point: when a student in one of the graduate schools applies for a ticket to the Yale game, he finds himself at the bottom of the list. If he is a candidate...
...individualism among the students. It makes no attempt to establish an invariable type, either intellectual, religious, or social, to which all must conform or be rejected. Strong and hard to combat are the influences which shame individuality, in matters of thought, dress or manner. Freshman regulations tend to destroy it as well as the prevalent habit of scoffing at anything new or different. No real need of such regulations exists: in the past have not Harvard Freshman classes prospered without them? Why, then, should anyone regret their absence? Of course excessive roughness must be smoothed; but too much milling robs...