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...Another absolutely unblendable element is the Jew ... He has been a wanderer upon the face of the earth . . to him patriotism, as the Anglo-Saxon feels it, is impossible. Persecution has been his lot. . . . As a race the Jews are law-abiding. They are physically wholesome stock. . . . They are a family people, reverently and eugenically responsive to God's laws in the home. But their homes are not American...
...established. Earlier in the week the Separatists were thrown out of Coblenz by men loyal to the German Reich, but were able to regain the town with the assistance of the French. Another established point is that the French and Belgians actively supported Separatist troops by preventing the loyalist element from attacking them. For the rest, towns are won and lost every day, but as the occupational troops back the Separatists, they are naturally able to hold the positions...
...freedom to scout all over the world for suggestions that will add interest to any department of the paper, has shaped itself out of the variety of new ideas that Mr. Johnston has contributed to the World since he became a member of its editorial staff. The most essential element in making a successful newspaper, he believes, in "human interest," or satisfying that natural curiosity that everyone has about the other fellow...
...there is a second element in the situation. The undergraduate is often making ill-considered choices in selecting his future work; or worse, he is drifting into the first business that comes along, only to drift out again into something else. There is too much wasted effort, too little information about the character of various kinds of business or profession. Many an undergraduate takes his most important step in the dark...
...beginning of the football season a year ago, the University Band began the practice of performing maneuvres, complicated or otherwise, to add to the Saturday afternoons an element that would please the crowd. The maneuvres of the Band were not meant to please everybody. You can't please everybody. If you could, we'd call this place heaven and look further for ideals in bands--and editorials...