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...recently pointed out in these columns that democratic patriots should think for their country before they fight for it. The Harvard Union for American Neutrality now wishes to suggest some of the issues which must be thought out. For the fact of an overt act does not lead straight to a duty to fight Germany...
...people to war or peace without their saying one word. Our newspapers, of course, do not voice public opinion, but only print class opinions. Use the word "Kaiser" and you could not tell it was not Prussia. So far, therefore, as the R. O. T. C. discourages thinking, thinking straight and thinking publicly, we believe it suffocates our democracy. We submit that if the issue is to be decided in the interests of the many, the many must formulate their views and press them upon the President and Congress. Otherwise, the sinister minority interests will have their way. We have...
...remarks--remarks such as this: "The chair demands a philosophical scholar who is an ethical thinker of distinction, and Mr. Russell with his provocative individualism, is hardly that." Why, indeed, must all distinguished ethical thought be anti-individualistic? Is only the man who swallows tradition, keeps in the straight and narrow path of past systems of morals, and who, above all, agrees with you--is only he a distinguished ethical thinker? Clearly, it is not Mr. Russell's distinction as a philosopher against which the writer directs this remark, but Mr. Russel's philosophy. If Mr. Russell is wrong...
...globe, if they set out to incorporate within their own consciousness the knowledge and experience of those others as to foreign lands. History at first hand is a pretty thrilling affair, even though it may be a bit warped and twisted and prejudiced. A college with 28 straight nationalities and an additional lot of hyphenates ought to be as good as place to cultivate the spirit of world unity as a city with representatives from 33 nations among its population. And yet in neither place is there any deliberate attempt to compass that aim. It is an end missed through...
...various modifications, changes, etc., that have practically made the sport another institution have not up to the present time been of sufficient import as to thoroughly impress the players with the high value of observing under all conditions a strict adherence to playing square, fair, straight football...