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...lost the War and we are drunk by a prosperity which has made us so indifferent that, the gates being left unguarded, the domestic enemy has entered and taken every salient and every trench. What has the country gained at home?. . . The crassest of materialism reigns in Washington by grace of Woodrow Wilson's plunge into the War, and where materialism is there sits corruption. The Denbys, the Falls, the Daughertys, the Dohenys, now all condemned by one court or another, are some of the responses to the appeals for war, to the setting free of the passions that...
...casts include many members of the Harvard Dramatic Club and the Radcliffe Idlers, and are being directed by L. H. Weinstein '27. He is being assisted by Grace Michelman, last year's president of the Radcliffe Idler Society...
Boxing as an intercollegiate sport at Harvard was given trial at Hemenway Gymnasium Saturday night with striking success. It remains now only to grace the most manly form of athletic endeavor with the dignity and title of minor sport. As a form of clean, hard competition bringing into play the highest degree of skill training and condition, boxing has a distinct place among the organized athletics of the University...
...most alarming thing about the incident is the apathy with which it has been received. The New York Tribune was one of the few Republican papers to comment on Haines' return to grace. It stated quite baldly that the President had to make the choice between incompetence and the loss of support of the Anti-Saloon League. He chose incompetence. Possible votes twenty months from now, then, are of more importance than present and effective administration of government. And no one seems to care a great deal perhaps because no one will cavil at ineffective dry administration...
...Statues of what animals grace the main entrance of the public library on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, and the Art Institute on Michigan Avenue, Chicago...