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...Harvard Regiment was notable for its size and for the cooperative spirit of its members, which was at least equal to that at the Junior Plattsburg camp. Naturally many of its enlistments were the result of mob psychology. It was one of the things that was "being done...
...would-be graduate's career, will take place on Mystery Island, which is all that the name implies. At 8 o'clock hundreds of sportive diploma-chasers will embark on the perilous trip to Marine Wharf, via the surface cars. Two steamers will be provided to transport the unruly mob to the island, and the race which these ocean greyhounds will put up will be worth going miles...
...insignificiant minority, the results of last night's Forum are in the highest degree encouraging. The argument above all others which has troubled those working towards some judicial means of setting international difficulties has been that when once the people are aroused by an appeal to emotional mob spirit, war may come no matter how clearly it can be shown to be their interest and advantage to remain at peace. That in this day of world conflict, with every possibility of this nation being swept off its feet by terror and blind fear, with an unprecedented campaign being waged...
...would so directly make for peace as to be assured that the defensive strength of our nation resides in those citizens for whom war is not a profession, who belong to no military caste, to no military party, who are free from the suggestions and the control of a mob impulse, and who not only have been trained in the knowledge of war-fare, but also have been grounded in the fundamental principles of just and fair dealing between man and man, and between nation and nation as well...
...hands than one join is its production. The book reviews are below the Monthly's average. They do not touch books worth review, and they are inconclusive as well as over-lengthy. One editorial sets squarely before the University the blight which the Freshman dormitories threaten--a College of mob-driven athletics and "class spirit." The other, under the rather surprising through flattering title, "Shall Harvard Menace Neutrality?" puts that reputed difficulty before us about as clearly as such an absurd possibility can be demonstrated...