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...courage, the willingness of the soldiers of the Marne to die for the sake of Liberty, makes an instant response in our hearts because it is the common heritage of France and America. . . . This Marne Memorial will represent our kinship of democracy with France and the bond of sympathy between America and her sister republic."--Dr. John H. Finley...
...memories we shall keep bits of prose and poetry of quality given us in the pages of the earlier numbers of the Magazine. We shall leave to oblivion occasional lapses into the sensational, and ventures toward the goal of publicity for publicity's sake. We shall try to forget the dying periodical's monstrously serious efforts to clamber up on a platform of representation of the University and reformation of all its faults. We shall regret that humorous appreciation of its own foibles did not come sooner to the Magazine--though we may imagine that even a faint consciousness...
...does not know outside the class room. He is so hampered by the number of lectures he must attend that he has little time for independent thought. His reading is largely the reading necessary for his specified courses; he has neither time nor energy for exploration for its won sake. There is on plethora of clubs for discussion; when these exist they are mainly social in their nature. There is not the stimulus to originality which a good man can get at Oxford or Cambridge. On the other hand, there is more equality of treatment; the passman does not fall...
True Liberalism not only believes-it acts. It not only sheds light, but it also radiates heat. It combines both forms of energy. And because the "zeal for zeal's sake," on which Radicalism prides itself, is happily lacking tin Liberalism, is Liberalism sanely dubbed as a compromise, a vague inactivity? RALPH R. WEAVER...
...jeopardy. A similar situation occurred when the president was in Paris. The Shantung controversy made a call for the George Washington necessary. The Treaty hung in the balance and in the end, the President was forced to compromise. His point, a good one, had to give way for the sake of the treaty as a whole...