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...anything else in the world, out of current revenues as nearly as possible in distinction from bonded indebtednesses. Debt is a millstone around the neck of a nation. Fortunate are the people who pay as they go. To keep as near that ideal as possible should be the desideratum of all statesmanship. Our enemies, who commonly belittle our activities, should at least know that, stupendous as has been our war preparation, we are paying an unprecedented fraction of it out of current taxation. Boston Herald
This does not mean that we should fly to the ideal of individual development. Our present largely useless "liberal" education proceeds from our inherited tendency to justify subjects on the ground that they "develop the individual," without testing either to what end they develop or whether they really develop anything...
...regrettable that an ideal system of informal sports will not live at Cambridge. We are athletically spoiled by watching huge contests on whose outcome championships are at stake; we have been brought up on the idea of the importance of the Yale game and with it gone our whole system breaks down. The candidate for a team wants to get into the big game, and when the final contest turns into a struggle with some preparatory school or service organization, the whole cause for training seems to him wasted. From the observer's point of view, the informal system...
What we need is the old intercollegiate system with its evils taken away. Intramural sport should be encouraged, but it can not be the basis of the system; the example of a University team is the ideal for which every man strives. But the old evils must be abolished; we do not wish to get back into the rut in which we have been running for the last decade. The money question has been the greatest drawback, and next to it, the elaborate system of training, both of which over-emphasize the importance of athletics. These dangers are gone...
...ideal craft with which to comb submarines is now being constructed. Henry Fond, otherwise known as the manufacturer of popular automobiles, has become a ship-builder. On his ways at Detroit he has already laid the keel of a future terror of the seas. Since the Government found that Ford could turn out a most capable though small model of a normal-sized auto, it has requested him to devise a destroyer on the same principles. These boats will be completed as rapidly as possible, probably...