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Charles E. Ruthenberg, Executive Secretary, stated the ideal program as: 1) easy Constitutional amendments, 2) abolition of Supreme Court and courts' power of veto, 3) abolition of the Senate, the Presidential veto, the present Congressional committee system, and of the system of 48 state laws, which served as a " fig-leaf for centralized dictatorship of employers...
Speaking last night before the Harvard Committee of the League of Nations Non-Partisan Associations, Professor Arthur N. Holcombe '06 declared that "a proposition for a League of Nations, which has ceased to be only an ideal and has become a reality, is before this country, and is upheld by all citizens who believe in the foundation of universal peace through political agencies...
...purpose which the Musical Club has set for itself and has been carrying out, it is aiding and abetting a proper ideal--that colleges should be the laboratories where new inventions may be tried out and, if not found wanting, introduced to the public--that colleges should not only be the treasure-houses of the old but the birthplaces of the new. And one of the advantages of these experiments is that they need not and should not be performed before an esoteric few. Assuming that undergraduates possess an average modicum of intelligence, their attendance at such an experimental performance...
...York Evening Post, said in a speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors: " To The New York World I would award the honor of being the newspaper of greatest distinctive character, day in and day out; for the vigor of its news and editorial columns; and the dominant ideal of The World today is that same ideal of public service originally conceived by and steadfastly held to by the great Joseph Pulitzer...
...useless to reiterate the arguments for and against a "practical" memorial. But it seems reasonable to think that the practical and the ideal should be combined; and it is emphatically certain that a new chapel would not combine them. The college religious service no longer plays any part in the lives of a vast majority of students, nor is it likely to become any more important in the future. A new building would hardly change this situation, and a lifeless, neglected edifice would be the most ignominious of tributes. Furthermore the very idea of such a suggestion would have seemed...