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...move on the part of the four major sport captains to cancel all athletic appointments on Mondays is worthy of highest commendation. Although many may think that this should be expected, the loss of an entire practice day a week means much to the baseball team and crew. It is a great sacrifice on the part of the captains, and an emphatic proof that these leaders of Harvard's athletics realize the need for military training and recognize that duty to this country takes precedence over duty to one's University...
...peers of many in the North. It is all too little recognized here what merit such institutions as the University of Virginia, Tulane, and Vanderbilt represent. They can receive professors from the North in all respects on a plane of equality, which, if tipped at all, is likely to move in the South's favor, by the grace of that refinement if culture for which Southerners of position have ever been famous. It is false to assume that the material problems of reconstruction after the war ever obscured from the minds of the most intelligent Southerners those things...
...following communication has been received from th Hon. Augustus Peabody Gardner '86, representative from the Sixth Massachusetts District and member of the House Committee on Ways and Means. In it he calls upon all members of the University to back up the President in whatever move he makes and to be prepared to face any crises that may arise. The smooth-tongued eloquence of the pacifist and alien resident must be avoided...
...paper blockade. The German submarine blockade can never be anything but a paper blockade for the very nature of the submarine makes it impossible to surround England with a cordon of blockaders. The submarine is easy prey for a warship and hence it must keep on the move. And Germany, according to international law, has no right to forbid neutrals to trade with England until an actual blockade is established...
...fore, sporting a veritable menagery of peace-doves and soft drinks. I have talked with every advocate of pacifism that I could get close enough to on the street and they all say that, in the President's place, they would have applauded Germany for her latest move and rejoiced that the war was at last on a fair basis. I got several of them to endorse the statement that their lives were more valuable than their honor or their moral welfare. "There would be no civilization if honor came before existence," they said...