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...water at the same drug store, and listen to the same lectures on architecture or biology, is less obstreperous than elsewhere. So far as I am aware, there is little, if any, of the kind of college life typified by the guitar with the blue ribbon and the felt flag bearing the name of Alma Mater in large white letters. Neither is there any such at Oxford, Cambridge or the Sorbonne...
...rather humiliating for an American to feel that if he wants to travel to most foreign countries, most of the largest and best steamers plying the Atlantic and usually flying some other flag than his own. It is an unfortunate fact that the bulk of our commerce is carried in foreign bottoms and the reason for it is that the costs are so high in the United States and the laws under which our ships operate are so oppressive in their workings that our fleets operate under a handicap...
...changing the laws that operate to place the American merchant marine at a disadvantage when competing with other countries. We should see to it that all the main trade routes of the world are covered by American ships of the fastest and most commodious type, flying the American flag, under American officers; ships that will carry our passengers our mails and our freight direct to the principal countries and ports in the world. From the Pacific Coast we are now able to go direct to Japan, and the Philippines, on admirable ships that give really good service. There should also...
...according to the present outlook, Yale alumni are in a somewhat daned condition mentally and are just taking an account of the remnants of their native stock. One of the questions they are asking is how it will seem if the president of Yale waves a Harvard football flag at the future football games. The Governor of Connecticut and other Harvard alumni waved crimson banners at the last match. --New York Evening...
...Living Room and halls will be decorated in orange and black. At one end over the bust of John Harvard will be a Harvard and a Princeton banner hanging together, while draped from the balcony at the opposite end will be the enormous American flag carried during the Spanish War by the battle-cruiser "Harvard...