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...that the emotions raised by war are regrettable, or, to use President Conant's word, unedifying, is very far from saying that they are avoidable on the part of members of a University that cannot but reflect the emotions of a community of which it is a part. A philosophic detachment so complete as to impose upon all its members that superiority to human emotions and mundane events which Mr. Gregg advocates would be impossible outside of a retreat, which by its very seclusion would limit its spiritual benefits to its own members. A university, nevertheless, and quite fortunately...
...immense confidence in the accuracy of his surveys. What he fears more than a wrong report is "an election dominated by apathy, where the people don't take the trouble to vote, and where our poll might conceivably reflect true public opinion more accurately than the election itself." But he also insists on the limitations of his polls. He steadfastly refuses to make any forecast of electoral votes. The important and proper use of his political surveys is, he insists, not to predict elections but to obtain an over-all view of popular sentiment on public issues...
Veterans and journalists have no reason to fear Browder. His chances of election are little better than those of "No Third Drink" Roger Babson, and the excuses of the group who retracted their names reflect more on themselves than on the Communist Party. Suppression of minority groups even by the American Legion has no excuse. We are not at war and there was no reason for the veterans' squeeze play. Far more dangerous than the Leftist groups, whatever their fondness for vodka, is a powerful organization getting set to protect America in the manner of Hitler's storm troops...
...killed, 10,615 seriously injured, bringing the war-long totals to 8,365 killed, 12,352 injured. But the majority of these casualties were women, and four-fifths of the total died in long-suffering, lambasted London. And the cold death figures did not begin to reflect the casualties of heart and mind, the tolls of fear and despair and sickness...
...Schuster editorial scheme was to concentrate on letters that reflect "the great personalities, the great events, the great ideas of history." The anthology opens with the somewhat acrid correspondence of Alexander the Great and Darius III (circa 334 B.C.), closes with Thomas Mann's warning to his age. St. Paul counsels the quarrelsome Corinthians ("the greatest of these is charity"). The Younger Pliny is baffled by the early Christians ("if they persevered, I ordered them to be executed"). St. Jerome eyewitnesses the Barbarian sack of Rome ("the wolves of the North have been let loose"). George Washington rejects...