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...space here to enter into the various ramifications that have brought this change to pass. From the discovery of a secret Russo-German treaty, ultimatum, reply, charge of ambiguity, counter-reply, and second ultimatum have followed "fast and ever faster," until the whole procedure is now entangled in a maze of words and assumed misunderstandings. And more than once has the disruption of the entire gathering been threatened. The atmosphere at Genoa is as calmly deliberative as must have been that in the vicinity of the Kilkenhy cats whose talls were knotted together. In a final effort to call down...
...maze of rumour, detail, and guess-work surrounding the farm congress now being held at Washington, come two interesting facts. They are stated by no less a personage than Mark Sullivan in the New York Evening Post...
...present-day maze of quickly succeeding events and complex economic and political developments, the average undergraduate wanders about, eagerly seizing such bits of the news as have meaning for him, rejecting the rest. He has a vague feeling that when we "get back to normal times" he may be able to find out what it all means. The reason that he cannot grasp it now is, primarily, that he does not know where to find adequate accounts of current affairs, nor how to correlate his knowledge of them. In the second place he has not enough time. He usually reads...
...lack of knowledge both about the party and about the individuals in it. It was the same sort of uncertainty which made hundreds of Harvard men, nominally Republicans, cast Democratic votes in 1912 and 1916, in the vain hope of lifting the country out of this "political maze...
...give students an "academic education," the University is apt to overlook the importance of leaving with its members something to guide them in the days that follow graduation. The result has been that the young University man is thrust from the shelter of his alma mater into the maze of the world, knowing not which path to select. His educational training has in many cases failed to give him any basis upon which to judge where his real interest lies or in what field he can be most useful...