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...being fought." He advocates that to make a successful and lasting peace, the conferences should consist of two bodies, one made up of nominees of the Government to act as an initiating and drafting committee, and the other made up of delegates of the people who will approve or reject these proposals...
...Monthly's temporary demise. Yet Harvard sorely needed the Monthly. In the world outside it was looked on as one of the proofs of Harvard's difference from other colleges. The existence of such a magazine indicated, vaguely enough to be sure, a desire to think things through, to reject ready-made opinions for the mere reason that they were ready-made, to hold a little aloof from current lanes of thought. Such a spirit, only too rare in our land of gigantic uniformities, and almost non-existent in our colleges, gave one hope that here at least a leaven...
...private pride must yield to higher national ends, so must national pride. I utterly reject as mumbo-jumbo any conception of American honor as a mysterious something distinct from the aggregate honor of American citizens. National traditions, ideals and honor live in the minds of people and nowhere else. Now, as members of the American partnership, we feel sorely humiliated by the Germans. Somehow we feel less moved by the greater indignities practiced by American partners on each other. It is so much easier to hate the foreigner. But if we are to steer with open eyes toward the goal...
...most striking change in the arrangement is a provision which makes it mandatory for a freshman to accept or reject an invitation within an hour after he has received it and before he has had opportunity to discuss it with his classmates...
...Faculty declined to enact them. No one could complain of too cursory and inadequate consideration of the subject, for it has been before the Faculty during a whole month. The students have a natural wish to be shown the faults in these two proposals. Why did the Faculty reject them? C. H. SMITH...