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...answer to recent proposals that vocational education be introduced at Harvard, the statement reiterated the position taken by last year's Council report, that "the colleges should resist all temptation to buckle down to the standards of the market place and the professions...
...Retail Merchants' Association sent a committee to persuade Dr. Ball to promise to go easy on the Authority. It was a stiff kind of pressure for any local editor to resist. Editor Ball drew himself up and said: "I have my own opinions and will stick to them...
Perhaps it is too easy for us, behind the safety of the Atlantic tides, to say to an invaded country: "You are folish. You should not resist. You cannot win." Perhaps it is too easy for us to forget what freedom and homeland means, we who have not felt the boot of the tyrant for so long. Perhaps the cynicism which followed the First War has blinded us to the flesh-and-blood emotions which the peoples of Europe are feeling. And yet most Americans have heard the news with a sort of relief, a relief that the futility...
...simply record that the ex-Kaiser stated the opinion that if the Western European nations had any sense they would patch up a peace of some kind and band together to resist the westward march of Bolshevism from Russia. We record, too, our conviction that the ex-Kaiser, for once in a long and none too brilliant life, made a profoundly wise remark...
With this speech Major Carlson will show uncensored pictures of the Japanese invasion which he has gathered while spending a year and a half as special observer with the Chinese regular and guerilla units. So completely has he lived with the Chinese forces during their attempts to resist Japan's "New Order in East Asia" that the British Ambassador in China has described him as the best-informed western military observer in China...