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...short, the policy of permanent arbitration for all disputes is possible as anultimate ideal, but it can only come through a long and slow development. As in the case of the rights of private individuals, recognition must be slow: we must gradually build up a body of law. In the meantime, we must be ready to fight, and in this connection we should remember the words of Washington's maxim that "preparation for war is the best assurance of peace. LOUIS SUSSDORFF...
Memorial Hall, as all similar eating houses, was constructed before these higher hygienic opinions began to prevail. The Harvard Union had the advantage of later ideas and very wisely adopted them; therefore it is already, and more and more will become, the ideal place in Cambridge for all members of the University to take their meals. The poorest as well as the richest can here find not only excellent food at reasonable prices, but also an environment of sociability and of quietude favorable to the best dietary conditions of health. MARTIN KELLOGG SCHERMERHORN
...Utopian dream of the I. W. W. movement is a universal strike, in which race lines and nations cease to be factors of importance. The realization of this ideal entails two assumptions: first, that the world's labor can be made to act together with sufficient concentration to obtain control of the centers of economic power; and second, that with the overthrow of capitalism syndicalism would be capable of stepping in and taking charge of affairs. The tendency of syndicalism to overemphasize the lateral interests of labor: that is, the interests of the crafts as a whole, and to slight...
...further educated. But this end is being rapidly accomplished through the medium of an efficient school system. Instruction is being steadily extended to the rural districts, and advanced professional and scientific courses are already a reality. For this branch of progress Dr. Lima finds the United States an almost ideal model...
...becoming the fashion to cite the Oxford Union as an ideal "Social Centre", and also as an ideal centre of discussion on current affairs. The obvious connection between these two functions. of the Oxford Union does not seem to have struck your contributors and correspondents. I was for two years an active member of the Oxford Union, and in my last term served as a member of one of its committees; I therefore feel qualified to talk about its position in the university. The only reason that it is a social centre is that it is the University Debating Society...