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...phrase which is subtly returning to a too frequent use among students in the University, it is the two-word phrase "getting by". The current vocabulary lost this unfortunate expression during the win-the-war days. Then, anyone who employed it would have been looked upon with well-founded suspicion that he was shirking his duty. The best only was expected, and the best was given unhesitatingly by all. But as President Lowell warned the Freshmen earlier in the year, "the great moral effort which this war has required will surely be followed by a period of moral lassitude...
Securing teamwork in food saving is the great problem of the Food Administration. And the biggest difficulty of that problem is the suspicion of the public that savings effected by business concerns are not passed along to the consumer...
There is a real misunderstanding here, and the real cause of this misunderstanding is guesswork and suspicion in the mind of the public. The business man must meet this misunderstanding frankly and a concrete explanation of the facts will eliminate the suspicions which have hindered the willingness of part of the public to co-operate...
...reality of the state. Our theory of government has made it easy for us to forget that such a thing as the state exists. Many people in this country as in Europe have been surprised by their own feelings of patriotism. We have looked on these feelings with some suspicion. What we want to do is to bolster them up with adequate reasons. We must attempt to make vivid what the state means to its citizens...
...hundred and four years the United States and Canada have lived side by side without mutual fear or suspicion; may their relation in the future be marked not only by this absence of friction, but by the positive qualities of strong mutual amity and respect...