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...wish to be misunderstood. I understand the more obvious reasons, at least, why we should fight the strike. It is because some consider it a strike as a result of which the public--an evidently though not actually innocent party--will suffer. If any man entertains this opinion and wishes to aid in breaking the strike (which probably won't come off) let him do so as an individual. The group should not be called "the Harvard Unit". Meetings for the instruction of prospective strike breakers should not be held on college grounds or if so held it should...
What is the purpose of all these movements? To stimulate interest in the colleges. Agreed. But why do we desire such interest? Is it in order that collegmen may better understand the problems which face the conference? Yes, but that is not the final purpose. It is Fardly to be expected that resolutions can greatly aid the experts at Washington in mastering the tremendously involved problems which the question of the limitation of armaments presents. Professor will have their part to play in that, not undergraduates...
...Until the people who are engaged in the active life of the modern world bring themselves to understand the language of a cooperative religion instead of that of a competitive life it will be useless to endeavor to influence them by that religion". Dr. Sperry continued by outlining the problem of the struggle between Christianity and Competition, and concluded by saying that most of the intellectual fighting of the next few years will be concerned with the endeavor to solve this problem...
...matter of importance to the freshmen only. The principle that the less college men are compelled to do and the more they do on their own account the better, is an abiding one at Harvard. It applies to the Chapel. Those freshmen who can truly understand that principle will not need any arguments to prove to them that they should go to Appleton Chapel this evening. Those who cannot understand it are little likely to be influenced by any arguments...
...after the last war not so that I am able to write letters over German literature without any compensation. I will nothing gain from our correspondence, but I may only have a like compensation for the loss of time, which costs the writing of these letters. I hope you understand me, and I believe that you will be able to fulfil my condition without great sacrafice, because your money has a considerably greater value than ours. I attend your proposes...