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...paragraph 6 we are told that "participation by America in the general European conflict would be a misfortune to humanity." Have we any special claim to being the pet of humanity? Just as good people as we are fighting and they are fighting on the side of humanity. Should we smugly hold ourselves to be too good to fight by their sides? We are not the chosen people of humanity, though if we were would we not be under even greater obligations to defend...
Aside from other objections to this anti-propaganda is exceedingly difficult of practical definition. Perhaps a majority of Harvard professors urge upon their students views of moot questions and pet doctrines well within the dictionary meaning of the term--always indicating to the class, of course, that the matter is in the field of contention. All the speakers mentioned in the list above apparently were considered not propagandists. Neither was Captain Ian Hay Beith, whom the CRIMSON accurately referred to as having "been sent to this country by the British Government to explain Britain's part...
...lone run by passing Berry. Fripp then juggled Parmer's hit long enough to allow Berry to reach third. Parker fanned, but Morse, batting for Spear, knocked a grounder to Nash, who threw Parmer out at second. The "first and third double steal," one of the University's own pet plays, followed and gave Vermont...
There are three short stories: an account of a prize-fight,--still Mars,--a story of a squalid seduction,--Venus following the camp-fires,--and a study of an Idiot, Boy who inadvertently slew a pet cricket. The first two are by Mr. T. Pulsifer. As for the prize-fight, in "The Champion," there is some vivid realism in the style that gives promise of an eventually competent reporter. The anther should study the great classic in this genre,--the account by Mr. John I., Sullivan of the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight, in, I think, The New York Journal...
...PET dogs taken to board. Happy home. Fine yard. 8 Magee street, Cambridge...