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...result of a non-partisan poll of Princeton alumni taken by a committee of graduates from that university under the auspices of the Hughes National College League show 2,098 votes for Hughes and 651 for Wilson. The poll reveals that 492 alumni who voted for Wilson in 1912 are going to vote for Hughes this year; whereas 57 is the total Taft and Roosevelt vote which is going to Wilson. Equally significant is the fact that 360 men who voted for Roosevelt in 1912 are going to vote for Hughes and only 37 for Wilson. Over 90 per cent...
...with delight that we hear of the plan to play chess by wireless. Surely of all the triumphs of Marconi's genius none surpasses this. It has long been recognized by non-partisan observers that the range of the University Chess Team is much curtailed, and many possible glorious victories have been lost because of the team's inability to entertain the Swedish mathematical wizards in a dual contest, or to journey to Pekin to brave the Confucius Club upon its home chess board...
...authoritative assembly of documents that may some day be historically valuable in determining the causes and course of the war. The literature so far collected may be divided roughly into three groups: first, the official publications of the various belligerents; second, accounts of the war written from a non-partisan standpoint; and third, the great mass of distinctly prejudiced literature, ranging from the numerous foreign newspapers down to the frakly propagandist book and pamphlets...
...partisan literature may be divided into two classes, the German American propaganda with which everyone is familiar and which includes such books as "England a Pirate Nation," "England's Perfidy Exposed," and such publications as "The Fatherland," and the regular newspapers of England, Germany, France Italy, and Austria. The most important of these are the London Times the Westminster Gazette, Le Temps, Le Figaro Corriere deila Sera (Milan), Neue Freie Press (Vienna) Neueste Nachrichten (Munich), and the Allgemeinge Zeitung (Berlin). In addition to these papers, which will be filed throughout the war a set of American Notes, published...
When undergraduates handle a "live" subject such as the war, they can hardly be expected--as individuals--to be otherwise than partisan. When the leader of a nation at war says "God is on our side," thereby implying that He is not on anyone else's he at least courts satirical comment from those individuals who believe in an impartial Diety. "Gott Mit Uns" is the expression of one man's opinion, honored with a prize because it is well put together, and not because it takes issue with Professor Meyer's people. It is not a Harvard prize poem...