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...there any limitations to the principle of patriotism? Is dishonesty, for example, is the breaking of solemn treaties, is ruthless inhumanity to a weaker neighbor, justified by a belief that it will conduce to the prosperity of one's own people? Is a nation morally right in seizing anything it can obtain by force or fraud, or has it a duty to deal fairly with others, and respect their rights? Would Cain have acted properly if, instead of being a single individual, he had been fifty millions to Abel's twenty-five millions and had called himself a nation...
...York Newspapers--fancied or actual--in the last year to show Yale in a dulled light in a number of published articles. To the undergraduate this is a matter of immediate battle. A touch of misplaced sarcasm leads us to imagine a group of diabolical editors in solemn conclave for the purpose of misinterpreting every event on the Yale Campus. This is a silly conception and one born of pique rather than judgement. More careful perusal of the majority of articles will reveal that both sides of every question are fairly stated...
...much for justification of the solemn Advocate's successful venture into the pasture usually conceded to the Lampoon. And it is genuine praise to say that this month's Atlantic Monthly matches in wit the famous Fake Crimson, and the Boston Transcript editions of Lampy. As befits the "literary undergraduate publication" the burlesque is not too obvious, in fact June Dandelions, the opening story, might almost have appeared between the authentic buff covers of the Back Bay Monthly. There is the same haunting sense of fatality and say-it-with-flowers motif, the same flattering intimation that the reader...
...average spectator who hails from districts foreign to the solemn traditions of Beacon Hill, is astounded at his display or merriment. And he is perplexed as to its source. Whether it be simply an unrecognized playfulness in the makeup of Boston's citizens, or whether it veers to the other extreme in the shape of a seriously perverted sense of humor, is hard to say. Whatever its excuse, it must be as irritating to the actors as it is to the playgoer who wants to get his money's worth of thrills, shudders, or sighs...
...recent talk about "recognizing scholarship" is it seems to me (with the utmost respect for its origin), characterized by earnest benevolence rather than by perfectly clear thinking. What keeps it from being more impressive is its essential irrelevance. The champions of the idea are palpably sincere, not to say solemn: their intentions are the best in the world, but their psychology is loss to be commended. They do not, that is, admit into their thinking the one fact which is most germane to the subject--namely, that scholarship is in its very nature a pursuit which is not fostered...