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...other danger springs from the economic disorders and the mental unrest produced by the war. The Government of the United States, if it is to exist at all, must be what it has always been, a government of all the people, and it must be conducted and sustained by the representatives chosen by the people to make the laws of the United States. Nothing could be more fatal to the ordered freedom which is thoroughly American in its conception and purpose than to have any organization of a minority of the people or of some particular occupation or class undertake...
...number of lectures he must attend that he has little time for independent thought. His reading is largely the reading necessary for his specified courses; he has neither time nor energy for exploration for its won sake. There is on plethora of clubs for discussion; when these exist they are mainly social in their nature. There is not the stimulus to originality which a good man can get at Oxford or Cambridge. On the other hand, there is more equality of treatment; the passman does not fall into the slough of ignorant content which the English universities offer...
...present was pointed out as an example of the interference of England in American politics. The proposed auction of the interned German liners afforded a convenient pretext for illustrating how America was attempting to sacrifice her ships to swell the British naval reserve. Each of the situations alleged to exist have been shown to be entirely fictitious. On the ethical principle that an implied lie is no less a lie than a similar assertion, the newspapers controlled by William Randolph Hearst are imbued with the spirit of falsehood...
This plan, Mr. Hanson believes, would do away with the menace of the foreign colonies which exist in so many parts of the United States and which operate so efficiently to prevent immigrants from learning Americanization and from becoming loyal citizens...
Colleges ought to be laboratories for experimentation in discussion and thought. Radicals are valuable to any college community because they challenge and make us justify the existing order. If radicals are needed to stir students from their lethargy, to make them think and analyze the important subjects of the day, let us have more of them, If they didn't exist the world would decay from too much self-satisfaction...