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...were not for the fact that as long as young men are collected together to acquire knowledge they will be railed at for being inclined to question the judgment of their elders, we would join in the hue and cry which is now being raised. We believe, however, that the best curb to the present tendencies in our college would be the sudden acquisition by certain much worried individuals of a sense of humor...
...theory we should hand all criminals as the most effective deterrent possible. The true theory is, we believe, that society feels it has been wronged--the social consciousness revolts--and demands restitution. A modern example of this is the lynching parties of our Southern States. Certainly the Anglo-Saxon "hue and cry" was the result of a society demanding retribution rather than one seeking to deter others...
...action in accordance with his point of view. The Senator has spoken too hastily. Granted that the situation is a difficult one, and that California has so far been practically unsuccessful in her handling of it: still there is as yet no adequate reason for raising such a hue and cry. Until the time for action arrives, it is worse than useless to parade our grievances in public. The result is only too likely to be the rekindling of the flames of anger and stubbornness in both Japan and America--names which will prevent any peaceable settlement of the problem...
...army has a way of coloring enlistment in its rosiest hue for the young men who are eager to learn. Its latest scheme makes it clear that there is a "chance for enlisted men of the army to get a thorough college education" after the period of their enlistments. Some thirty-nine colleges have signified their co-operation by offering free tuition, and fifty-two offer aid in one way or another. Unless the men are distinctly eligible the colleges will suffer. Just where this plan is of value to the individual and to the colleges is not clear...
...unless he expends much of his own money or somebody else's money. And now it has been shown that Governor Lowden spent several hundred thousand dollars of his own money, and General Wood and Senator Johnson spent several hundred thousand dollars of other people's money, a great hue and cry is raised...