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...purely professional point of view toward military activities. Last year in a special article for the CRIMSON, General Edwards sounded the call to arms oy insisting that no college man could "maintain his self-respect" if he failed actively to prepare for the "next war" and by denouncing as "soft, mushy propaganda" the sentiment which put the ideal of peace above any other. General Pershing seems of somewhat the same opinion but has been more guarded in proposing that a "daily routine of practical exercises . . . should be included in all colleges...
...large type, hardly any thicker than The Saturday Evening Post, about one-quarter the latter's size and retailing at just 15 times the latter's price. The book omits the two cartoons which accompanied the essay originally and lent point to its remarks about a quiet, hard-working, soft-spoken, pestered...
...weeks ago the miners and operators broke off negotiations for a new wage contract because the operators refused to accept the miners' demand for the "check-off." The Coal Investigation Committee of the Massachusetts Legislature has threatened to advise all New Englanders to boycott hard coal and use soft instead. The latest development was a call from the United States Coal Commission asking miners and operators to meet with it in New York in an attempt to reach a settlement...
...boycott is significant only because it indicates desperation in New England (which constitutes a large part of the anthracite-using public). If New Englanders can give up their predilection for hard coal, their furnaces cannot. The expense and trouble of changing a large number of private furnaces to burn soft coal efficiently would materially injure the effectiveness of a boycott. As for the call of the Coal Commission to a new conference, it is popularly attributed to President Coolidge's desire for a settlement. Members of the Commission consulted with the President before acting, and he doubtless gave...
Ambassador Harvey : " Howard Chandler Christy painted a portrait of me in informal attire (soft collar, pipe-in-hand effect); Mrs. Post Wheeler, wife of the U. S. Charge d'Affaires in London, hung it in her house and had an ' at home.' Many society folk came to have a look...