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...last fifty years has come an ever-increasing need for efficient administration and clean politics. This demand has not been adequately answered. Our city governments, with a few notable exceptions, have drifted farther and farther from political decency, and the national administration is too often wrapt up in a maze of red tape...
...enterprises in which the University has been concerned. We may have had difficulties in enrolling for Plattsburg Training Camps last year and there were doubtless barriers in the path of those who wished to become officers at Devens and Upton, but these difficulties were mere jokes compared to the maze of complications which came in the wake of the present camp. First there were no application blanks, then the applications were closed and reopened in the space of four days, then it was decided that early examinations were necessary and that no one could go to Plattsburg without taking these...
...possibility of the beginning of the end. It is far from a certainty, but that William II is becoming worried is some relief. Of course Wiliam would not wish his mesage to be so construed, but one should be able to pick out a grain of truth from a maze of sophistries...
...more or less impervious to is points-of-view, interpretations. He seems to lack philosophy. The college has to let too many undergraduates pass out into professional and business life, not only without the germ of a philosophy, but without any desire for an interpretative clue through the maze. In this respect the American undergraduate presents a distinct contrast to the European. For the latter does seem to get a certain intellectual setting for his ideas which makes him intelligible and gives journalism and the ordinary expression of life a certain tang which we lack here. Few of our undergraduates...
...first of these qualifications is that magic faculty known to the craft as 'the nose for news.'-that is to say an unerring sense for the occurrence that is worth singling out for attention from the maze of everyday life. But almost as important as this qualification are the other ones, of good sense and high-mindedness. The nose for news is nothing if not accompanied by the capacity to discriminate as to what is fit news...