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...been held among the undergraduates of Harvard. The large majority have suddenly realized this shameful ignorance of the vital questions of principle and policy that the leaders of the government are facing today. It is unfortunately the exceptional student who knows definitely whether Germany has the legal right to sink American ships should diplomatic relations be severed between the United States and that country. Only a very few have a clear idea of the historical facts which point to the reasons for the nation's present crisis. The habit of taking an intelligent interest in national questions must first...
...appointed. It may be advantageous to open the CRIMSON columns, heretofore passing over probation in silence, to the publication of delinquents. Whatever the committee decides or accomplishes, however, the greatest power behind probation will be undergraduate opinion. Let the many who inwardly disapprove of the men who sink into probation, express their disapproval. At least let all in the place of those named above realize that they have not reached that place without losing the respect of some...
...assistance of the Employment Bureau. According to the report of the secretary for last year the number of positions provided was almost 2,000 and the total amount earned by the students during the whole year was over $100,000. The struggles and achievements of other men sink into insignificance beside those of the men who earn their own education. Of her self-supporting men, especially, Harvard may well be proud, for many of them are distinguished not only in scholarship but in undergraduate activities as well...
...could sink to such doggerel...
From this analysis of the standards by which the progress of nations is measured it will appear that the western nations are not as progressive as they seem. If the present generations persist in following the methods of their fathers, the west will sink to where it cannot rise. In the east there is a balance held between material progress and spiritual progress, and it would be the saving of the west to maintain a like balance...