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...meeting will be held under the auspices of the "American Rights Committee," an organization which numbers among its members many graduates of the University. Its aim is to arouse interest in the movement which is going on all over the country to bring pressure to bear upon Congress to prevent the passage of the munitions embargo measure. A collection in aid of the American Ambulance in France will be taken. All members of the University are especially invited to attend...
Practice for the Freshman hockey team will begin in earnest as soon as the ice in the Stadium rinks is in good condition. The rinks have been thoroughly flooded and frozen, but as yet the ice has not been firm enough to prevent its softening during...
...arranging boxes, for which there will be no extra charge, groups, composed of from six to ten couples, should elect a chairman and apply for space before February 1, at which time the boxes will be awarded by lot. In order to prevent unnecessary expense for members of the class, the committee requests that no flowers be sent. Make checks payable to the 1917 Union Dance Committee...
...clear that modern warfare requires first a long period of nursing the economic, financial, and human capital of the intended aggressor? that Germany's present successes are due primarily to her 40 years' peaceful accumulations of these three, efficiently marshalled? and that the present war will effectually prevent Germany from effecting any aggressive ambitions against America? The truth is that all these theoretical dangers so vividly framed before our eyes (by busy propagandists, movies, etc.!) are purely theoretical. This scaremongery is what I call "emotionalism"; what does the CRIMSON call...
...from trying to prevent the education of men without means, the University, with its host of stipend-bearing scholarships, makes the problem easier than anywhere else in America. Harvard, realizing that maximum influence and virility require universality, wishes to represent all strata and all sections. By no means is it the stronghold of a class. Unfortunately education presupposes standards, and these unpleasantly exclude many; there is the further need of charging tuition to defray about a fourth of a student's academic expenses. Some minds evidently are still so limited as to see class exclusion in these ineradicable necessities...