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...drew an ideal picture of a world with law substituted for brute force, where sanity, reason, and counsel prevail, and where "all nations, big and small, unite into agreements regarding their common welfare on the basis of mutual understanding, conciliation, and cooperation". For the accomplishment of this, the speaker pointed out, the European countries must sink nationalism in internationalism, must demobilize not only their armies but also their jealousies and hatreds, "and tear down all trade restrictions, tariff walls, and passport regulations...
...make mine the ideal newspaper?" he inquired...
...Stop, all of you," he cried. "On second thought I have decided to cut out myself. It is no use trying to publish the ideal newspaper until I come across the ideal reader...
...University reader exempt from this classification. Theoretically we should furnish an approximation to that ideal public which the journalists claim is the sine qua non of an ideal newspaper; practically we are among the consistent devotees of the scare headline; we, too, are afflicted with the prurient curiosity" mentioned by Mr. Storey. Yet the fact that the more stable journals find a considerable sale in the University indicates that we read the lurid sheets for amusement rather than for information...
...alas, such an attitude, although ideal, is not entirely practicable here. Some of us can be bound together by the tradition of indifference; the rest must have some more tangible bond of interest. Were it not for the appeal of athletics or of competitions for managerships, our school boys would fly off like feathers before an electric fan; Harvard would mean nothing to them, and the Subway would become for then, the only vehicle of self-expression. This fortunately, is but one of the many justifications for athletics; it is the only justification for college spirit...