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Ordinarily, the undergraduate interest in or understanding of political problems finds its expression in pointed blasphemy directed at some particular "betenoir". Too much energy is spent in denunciation of outstanding individuals, and much too little in discussing the points of view those individuals represent...
Lord Curzon is prevented by birth from ever becoming a member of the House of Commons. His classmates at the University had, it is said, a standing toast--"Here's to George Nathaniel Curzon: he's a very particular person" and the tradition of aloofness has remained despite a record of diplomacy and statesmanship of which any commoner might be proud. It is small wonder, then, that the Labor party hinted that it would resent the appointment of a peer, "so alien to the aspirations of democracy", reposing luxuriously in the House of Lords well out of reach of Labor...
Professor Henri Hauser, Exchange Professor from the University of Paris, will give the 26th of his series of lectures in French on "L'evolution du capitalisms on Europe du Xvle Siecle juequ's non jours" at 4.30 o'clock this afternoon in Emerson J. The particular phase of this subject for today's lecture will be "Le role et Poeuvre de Turgot...
...numbers by foreign composers to be played in America for the first time, as well as the premiere performance of five piano pieces by a member of the department of Music at the University, will be features lending particular interest to the Harvard Musical Club's concert at 8.15 o'clock this evening in Paine Hall of the Music Building...
Faced with these facts, one cannot justly say that college men are not taking an active part in public questions. But the part that these particular "students" are playing is open to question. Tactics more ingenuous and less blundering than those of the Ku Klux Klan might be expected of the college...