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...that's right twenty-three white ones out front and two black ones behind... now don't be Peddie for Huey Brooks no argument. Dammann it. I only Read the signs, so I go out on a Shortledge and predict 23-3 for the Crimson and a small but precious prize for any one who can work in Zimmerman...
...Allies had left with the last boats. Rather it was like the closing of a whirlpool over the unrescued heads of a vast shipwreck's bravest stay-behinds. Smothered under the converging German flood were the last brave thousands who died or were taken prisoner, and mountains of precious materiel. This week War Secretary Anthony Eden, speaking for the British alone, said that 80% were saved of the original B. E. F., which is now put at a low total of 175,000. Not until World War II is finished will the full cost be wholly told...
While the peoples of Europe turn to mass murder, training in the science of murder, or defense against it, intelligent U. S. citizens are becoming solemnly aware that the arts, scholarship and precious thought of the West are in their keeping...
...true, then let it be soon. Every day means the loss of mere precious blood. It is too late already for the women killed in the air raid today. Too late, for the children killed on their way to school, too late for the workmen killed today at their benches. For Paris was bombed...
...Baxter went further and discussed academic freedom: "Chancellor Capen of the University of Buffalo . . . before the Association of American University Professors . . . referred to the 'exhibitionists' and 'mountebanks' in the academic world 'who to feed their own vanity, recklessly stake the profession's most precious and hard-won possession'." Baxter's remaining discussion of "the danger that the teacher will seek to impose his own political beliefs on his students" merits study...