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...believe that the purpose of such an institution as the Dean's List should be to realize in some measure the ideal of greatest possible freedom for upper classmen in organizing their work. We also believe that the Office had this same principle in mind when drawing up the regulations. If this is indeed the real purpose of the Dean's List, then the requirement regarding Degrees with Distinction is one which defeats this...
...journalism. The former assumes responsibility for all that appears on its pages, while the latter takes it for granted that its readers will not take signed articles at their face value, but will discount the personal element. This policy is quite in accord with democratic standards, and approaches the ideal condition; but unfortunately it presupposes either an intelligent public, or a public which reads editorials, both of which are rare commodities. Unless these articles are plainly labeled "Private" and fenced in a special column with special type, the general reader will appropriate their opinions for his own, without realizing their...
...faculty for imagining situations. But, as we have said before, the story seems at least partially auto-biographical. The reader feels Mr. Benet is writing more or less about himself and trying to picture how he would react to certain situations; that is, about a kind of ideal himself with whom he is not fully acquainted--or at least whom he is reticent about letting anyone but himself know intimately. The irony, too, which he attempts to put into the later parts of the book, is anything but convincing, and at some places where much space is used in talking...
...conference, and especially the part of his Sixteen Points which dealt with armaments, have had a discouraging effect, and made many people sceptical about the results of the conference. But this sound, clear-cut proposition to reduce and limit navies, in every way practical without losing sight of the ideal, has set minds at rest and brought a wave of optimism which ought to be strong enough of itself to assure ultimate success. Now that the nation sees the possibilities, it will not be content with half-way measures...
...give to such a proposal as this; yet it is difficult to find objectives for attack in its present form. The criticism that will be heard most frequently, no doubt, not only of the Hughes program but of the conference as a whole, is that it ignores the ideal--the elimination of war--and subserves everything to the ends of economic advantage. This perhaps is true; yet it is as valid for praise as for condemnation, because under the existing order we must recognize, if reluctantly, that practical considerations are the only ones which have any weight with diplomats...