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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...basis, for absolute refusal to accept that basis or a compromise, and for a compromise settlement. The last proposal runs a few thousands ahead of the other two. Did this division furnish a true sample of the state of mind of the whole nation, we should be forced to find in it an evidence of pronounced and central cleavage. Anyway, the vote is two to one against the League in its present shape...
...There is hardly a college or university in the land that cannot proudly point to names on its roster of gridiron heroes of those who made good in the greater game. Among the first to seek and find the Great Adventure was Johnnie Poe; Johnnie Poe, of Princeton, and the Black Watch; Johnnie Poe who once sent the message to an eleven, 'If you won't be beat, you can't be beat.' Not a bad slogan for an army, that...
...their like, we shall become an asylum indeed--an insane asylum, however, whose inmates will be native Americans. If there are those--and there are many of them--who feel that the Reds are not getting a square deal, it is earnestly to be hoped that they will find it convenient to accompany their more unfortunate brothers; or, if they are unable to do this, there is a longstanding custom whereby disloyal citizens and spies are used as targets for a firing squad. And if there are any ministers or editors whose compassion so overpowers them that life will...
Dissatisfaction with the system of secondary school education in this country has long been smoldering, and those who seek a more progressive policy will find an able spokesman in Dr. Mather Abbott, head-master of the Lawrenceville School, whose statements appear in another page of the CRIMSON. Dr. Abbott believes the two greatest difficulties are the "bugbear of college entrance requirements," and the failure of modern schools to realize that the "schoolboy of today is entirely a different being than the schoolboy of fifty years ago." He recommends the example of England in separating the intellectual sheep from the goats...
...been subject to the normal influences of peace, and this state of affairs will continue as long as governments are forced into paying out more than their revenues bring in. As a war measure the governments of the world have been forced to assume credit wherever they could find it. Although the United States has in the main recovered her stability, the nations of Europe still remain under the war cloud...