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...method of exaggerating the importance of small minorities this system is quite ideal. The newspapers announce that somebody or other has "swept" a given State, but, when we get the facts, it is found that the "sweeping" consisted in polling somewhere between four and twenty percent of the party vote. It is probable that in all the recent primaries so widely advertised throughout the land there were not so many votes cast for all the contestants as will be cast for President alone in the City of New York next November...
...Silver Bay Conference is not denominational, or purely religious; instead, it is an ideal place to spend a pleasant vacation, giving the additional advantages of contact with men worth knowing. No one is going to ask the Harvard delegates to spend their lives among the misguided Somalilander, or even to contribute to his enlightenment...
...meddling of our congressmen in Great Britain's affairs only strains the good relations of the two countries. And it is not a commendable love of the ideal of liberty which prompts this action, but a contemptible fear of the Irish vote in America. If these congressmen had enough courage to hold their country's interests above their own, they would keep their mouths shut on this matter...
...gained at any great collegiate function that brings the parents and friends of college boys into the open together and enables them to display simultaneously their automotive opulence." The "Quadwrangler" in the Transcript of April 30 comments on this proposal favorably, but regards the whole project as "altogether too ideal...
...moment disregard the source of this suggestion, since any regard for it would elicit the inevitable cynicism: "Can any good come out of Nazareth?" Let us rather consider the applicability of the suggestion to our own, University. Is it certain that the project is too ideal? Is it certain that it would be difficult to determine the exact measure of the contribution? Surely the unit cost of a Bachelor's degree has been calculated by some one and is known to some one. It is not unreasonable to ask all who receive Bachelor's degrees to pay for what they...