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...CRIMSON, reputable withal, was for the League, in favor of "going in," to save the World. It appeared to be thinking of suffering mankind then. That was reputable. Can it be that it was merely in a mystic mood and so impelled to pay lip-service to a rare experience? The CRIMSON reflects the tendency of Repute to become identical with Callousness. As one of those branded by the CRIMSON as Hyphenate, I wonder how it feels to brand and all the while bow in awe before an Imperial Idol? J. L. DONOVAN '22. December...
Dodging responsibility never brings much popularity; but it seems to be a central feature of our present international policy. We have been very busy of late rendering lip-worship to "oppressed nationalities--the ridiculously futile Mason Bill is the latest example. In the case of Armenia comes a chance for us to show just how far we are prepared to support our fine phrases with real acts of assistance. If unselfish service is our aim, and not empty talk, the Armenian mandate offers the best opportunity...
...recollect no instruction which was not of the most perfunctory and indifferent sort, unless possibly it was that of Professor Cooke in chemistry and Professor Child in English. The only impression made on me by one professor was that of a pair of staring spectacles and an immovable upper lip, and by another of a throaty growl in his Sophoclean larynx There was an entire lack, to me, of all moral or personal influences. I look back with a certain pathetic commiseration on myself, unwarmed for the whole four years by a single act or word expressive of interest...
...President Eliot is reported to have spoken. To be sure we have not any statute proclaiming the rights of man and the Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity of the human race. But we know what Equality and Fraternity meant and did in France, and one fails to see how mere lip-devotion to these dogmas is going to help out any society. But if Equality and Fraternity are to be a matter of deeds and not mere words, it is an open question whether one can find a people more loving, more mild, and more charitably disposed than, for instance...
...relative world one can not attain an absolute goal. We should be patient and do what we can to bring it about that more people can with reasonable hope aspire to a condition of greater happiness. It is to this aim that modern politics gives at least lip-homage...