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...Maine of sailing-vessel days and the still more removed Russia of 1915; faculty salaries and freshman short-comings do not crowd out plays and "the other man's wife" and a charming song. The cartoonist has done his best--and worst--with the ineffable stipend of the poor harmless drudge. And a clever actress gets her picture in the paper...
...endured only so long as he keeps within the bounds of decency. He may be cordially disliked all this time, but that is as far as his punishment can go. There is a line, however, which this joker may not cross and remain the same harmless though tiresome person. Once he has traversed this Rubicon, he subjects himself to punitive treatment...
...propose that education be made more materialistic and more political seems in itself a harmless enough suggestion. The decisive test of the advisability of adopting such a principle, however, must be pragmatic in nature; we must seek to discover how it works out when put into practice. For the justification of this or of any other system of education, then, we must look to the product that it brings forth...
There are poets of passion who strike a bolder note, but there are few such highly seasoned passages. By far the greater part of the volume is given over to harmless tinklings. The section of war poems is interesting. Surely here, I thought, will be poems that show the heart and imagination of our colleges astir and aflame. But the poems selected are all of a neutral tinge and most of them of a pacifist taint; possibly they reflect the personal prejudices and predilections of Mr. Schnittkind. There is not one that breathes the spirit of hearty indignation, healthy hate...
...investigations purely to anti-war speeches? A short while ago Count Tolstoi, the son of the world famous author, was prevented by President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia from delivering a speech in the precincts of that university which the censor at Moscow had seen fit to pass as harmless, even for Russia! Is that doctrine of of- fering public insult to a leading citizen of one of our possible allies to be left uninvestigated? It is not so long ago that the Harvard authorities prevented the widow of Mr. Sheehy Skeffington from speaking in the college building, though...