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...raising such a hue and cry. Until the time for action arrives, it is worse than useless to parade our grievances in public. The result is only too likely to be the rekindling of the flames of anger and stubbornness in both Japan and America--names which will prevent any peaceable settlement of the problem. If legislation may prove to be the remedy, why stir up excitement and antagonism by the cry of "wolf, wolf!"? Mr. Lodge is carrying a "big stick," but he is not walking softly...
...Advocate is struck, first of all, by the remarkable and wholly creditable variety of its contents. To call it a "Yale Game Number" is to tell but half the story. Football articles there are--and good ones--but the proximity of the biennial pilgrimage to New Haven does not prevent Mother Advocate from bestowing considerable attention on subjects of more permanent importance. The reader's second thought, if he be critically inclined, is a sense of artificiality, a palpable striving for effect, which is evident throughout the present number. And this is no less true of the prose than...
...slim support. Those of us who live outside of any contact with infantile paralysis can little realize the great good that is being done in changing cripples into wage earners--"the reconstruction and re-education of human derelicts." A greater good can be accomplished by learning how to prevent the spread of paralysis. The Harvard Infantile Paralysis Commission deserves the active support of a grateful public, especially of Harvard men who wish to endorse the action of the University in creating such a commission...
...German financial experts are to be consulted before the exact amount is decided on. England is inclined to be lenient--for obvious reasons. She is quite ready to resume her former trade with the Central Powers and naturally does not want them to be so hopelessly ruined as to prevent their purchase of British goods. She therefore welcomes a German voice in the matter...
...Babson maintains that if we would prevent business depression, we "must get down to the fundamentals of life." There must be a fundamental change in the attitude of both individuals and nations, for "salvation lies in serving, producing, giving and developing to the fullest capacity." W. L. DOWLER...