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Boston has three indoor athletic meet fixtures that can not be beaten the country over. I refer in particular to the B. A. A. games, the American Legion, and last, but not least, the Harvard Cornell Dartmouth triangular games in conjunction with the New England athletic championships. Also, it is a question in my mind which set of Boston games at tracted the most interest the past indoor season B. A. A. games were good. So were the Legion games. But for all round competition and interest I never saw a better set of games than the contests Saturday afternoon...
There is another point seriously open to doubt. I refer to the statement: "for in spite of government efforts, plots and bomb outrages have not diminished since the war." What are the facts on which this is based, or is it only some more speculation and inference...
When the newspapers refer to the Republican torchlight parades in Boston and New York as "old fashioned," we are not to picture a good, old fashioned political riot such as Mr. Pickwick was accustomed to. On the contrary the parade this evening is to be carefully arranged and conducted. Modern election days are no longer marvels of fraud and diplomatic violence; but modern campaigns are almost as disgusting in their methods as the fraud of the old time elections. If the present fashion calls for sarcasm, petty arguing and calling of names by rival candidates and rival newspapers, sly attacks...
...dispute to arbitration, but that the miners, contrary even to the advice of their leaders, refused. On the very face of it, from the newspaper reports that both sides were still open to negotiations the first part of the statement may be branded as false. Then besides, let me refer you to the truth: A report has actually been submitted on the coal industry; the trouble is that Lloyd George has consistently refused to act on it. I refer to the Sankey Report which may be found in the Nation...
...hasten to acquit any of these agencies for deliberate participation in my downfall. I am now editor of the 'World Tomorrow,' lecturer in the Rand School, Stump speaker, soap boxer and temporarily paroled in my own custody by the Mount Vernon police court. Mount Vernon does not refer to Washington's birthplace but to the city of that name which an unconstitutional ordinance against free speech. As I have learned today that a higher court declared the ordinance unconstitutional I hope by the time I see an audience of Harvard students to be entirely free of any taint of crime...