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...Berle advocates a state university for Massachusetts, dealing wholly with one side of a question which has been agitated a great deal lately. This university, be claims, would not merely duplicate what is now in existence, but would be "the old university made over, inspired with the ideal of serving all the people, and vitalized by the service itself." The impression conveyed seems to be that our old universities, at best copies of the European ones, have hardened into a traditional and unpractical from, whereby they benefit the few and disregard the many; that those who come to them...
France, on the other hand, has a great ideal, the "blue sky limit" as M. LeRoux phrased it, which looks toward the uplift of humanity and the altruism of man, not the "objects on the ground" of the Germans. France is not seeking aggrandizement but rather the protection of her women and children, the preservation of her homes...
...your issue for March 15, there appears an attack on Militarism, rather thinly disguised under a discussion of the summer camps. In discussion this subject, one should not fall so much in love with the ideal of universal peace as to neglect the importance of Militarism as a factor in the civilization of today. War on a large scale is, and has been, less of a probability for this nation than for any other; but war is a probability and as such should not be overlooked in our dreams of Millenium. The aim of the campaign of the socalled militarists...
...international court, an international legislature, of which the present Hague Conference would serve as an upper house, and an international police system are the bodies necessary for the machinery of a world league. It could not give ideal justice, perhaps, but the sacrifices would be slight in view of its great benefit to all the nations of the world...
Weather is the ideal conversational bromide because there are no two ways about it. A condition of rain, or snow, frigidity, or humidity, leaves no room for argument. While beer at smokers may or may not be a curse, there can be no doubt about the status of a Cambridge winter. Secure behind unanimity of opinion, we feel safe, therefore, in advancing a few editorial remarks on the weather...