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...question of pulchritude, Edward W. Bok looks no more like our martyred hero than Benny Leonard* looks like William Howard Taft. Did you ever see Bok? Have you any one's word for the "striking likeness" [TIME, May 31, p. 17] besides his? The distinguished immigrant-editor-publicist-pacifist has a fleshier face than President Wilsons ever was. His type is far less intellectual, broader, heavier in every way; strong?yes?but not so magnificently "horse-jawed . . . lean templed . . . highbrowed." You published an excellent but disrespectful description of Woodrow Wilson, all but the "longish ears," which you must have transplanted...
...sense parallel to the student movement in Europe. The European student has been face to face with crushing economic burdens, with political disqualifications, with the bitterness of religious feuds. He is exploited by Fascismo and swastika, by trade union and international, by militarist and pacifist. As a result he is either enlisted in these camps and immediately formed into the flying squadron as an active participant in the movement, or by violent reaction against such exploitation he has withdrawn either into quasi-Oriental mysticism or the idealistic medieval romance of the wandering student of old. Such movements have practically...
...Daniel Boone and Ernest Thompson Seton's Woodcraft Indians antedated the boy scout organizations, it was the Boy Scout Organization founded in England by Sir Robert which became the prototype of the Boy Scouts of America, which the Beard and Seton organizations formed by amalgamation. Amid a storm of pacifist ridicule, Baden-Powell started the organization in England. He first won the approval of Lord Roberts and in 1909 paid a visit to Edward VII at Balmoral. His enthusiasm carried the old King away, and when the veteran left Balmoral he carried not only the royal approval but a Knighthood...
...half, oposed by the police, and them led the strikers to city ban where he spoke for free speech and read the New Jersey State Bill of Rights. The police charged the mob and Mr. Baldwin was later sentenced to jail. Mr. Baldwin's activities as a pacifist during the World War also attracted the attention of the nation...
...sixteenth century at 11 o'clock. Professor Whitney lectures then in Emerson J to History 7, the course on the Renaissance which he is at present giving with Professor Edgell. His subject for this morning will be the art of warfare in the sixteenth century, and to a confirmed pacifist should be about the most attractive presentation of war possible...