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...partisan objections to Mr. Hoover are arguments in his favor. The American people are tired of professional politicians and disgusted with party politics. The old party lines have broken down so far as the rank and file of voters are concerned, and in respect to principles both parties are bankrupt. Although the spirit of partisanship has rarely been more bitter or more brutal, and never since Secession has it been more inimical to the welfare of the country, the battle of these warring politicians is a fictitious conflict...
...equally difficult to detect any important differences between Mr. Hughes and Mr. Wilson. They might disagree about this policy or that policy; but in so far as their public utterances of the last three years are an index to their political principles, these differences would be personal rather than partisan in any true sense...
This is not a year for partisan candidates in any sense in which that term has previously been employed in politics. Party labels there must be, because the party label has been established by law; but when the Republican National Committee is forced to offer a prize for a platform, it is ridiculous to pretend that there is anything which resembles a genuine cleavage of public opinion along party lines on the questions that confront the country. What is going on is merely the maneuvering of ambitious politicians who are waiting to see which issues are expedient and which...
There is no doubt but that partisan politics serve a very definite end in government, but a sharp party division has its drawbacks as well. We let the party leader do the thinking. We swallow campaign literature instead of digesting current thought. A college education, if it accomplishes anything, should teach us to formulate our judgments independently. The path of least resistance is to have our politics bequeathed to us, but the educated man thinks for himself...
Professor Lord's long study of Russia, and his experience in that country and at the Peace Conference, make him particularly able to treat this subject in a sane, non partisan way. He is offering to undergraduates the opportunity to find out what lies back of Bolshevism. It is a university's place to stabilize thought on the great issues of the day as well as those of the past, and Professor Lord is helping Harvard to face the present issue with intelligent scientific methods...