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...main value of retaliation is to lessen injuries by discouraging them. But a war aiming to defend American lives or to establish international law seems valueless to me because I think it would defeat its own ends. Another use of retaliation is to win prestige. I myself put faith in other expedients than war to gain a less precarious and less costly prestige. But war can be strongly argued on the ground of prestige and also on the premise that the Allies cause is our cause. To wage war as a point of honor, however, seems...
Section 3 of the platform states that "the rights of neutrals upon the seas cannot be established by a belligerent." That is precisely the issue and that is precisely why, after vainly telling Germany that she cannot establish our rights upon the seas, that we have been forced to sever relations...
...gift of $20,000 from Mrs. George Putnam was announced to establish a fund in memory of her brother, James Jackson Lowell '58, the income of which is to be used for the purchase of books for the College Library...
...measure is a well-recognized mode of warfare which she has herself employed in the past and is eager to employ in the present. As to the interference with importations into Holland and Denmark, it is a well-known fact that we were ourselves the first country to establish the doctrine of 'ultimate destination,' by preventing importations into the Mexican port of Matamoros because they were sent from there across the Rio Grande into Texas. Similarly, England, aware, for example, that more lard was imported into Copenhagen in three weeks than into all Denmark in the previous eight years...
Many men have tried to establish communication with Mars. From the most star-gazing professor of stellar history radiographing scientific inquiries, to the youngest Boy Scout wig-wagging questions about the baseball score, men of various degrees of wisdom have talked with the unheeding planet. Mars has been unresponsive. Perhaps that is because Mars is a gentleman and refuses to speak without a proper introduction to a chance acquaintance, especially such a disreputable feminine one as the earth. If so, the sun had better be called upon as an intermediary, to heliograph a social, "Earth, meet Mars." If the language...