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...over three years I have known Mr. Pond, and had the utmost respect for his views and ideals. But when he states that the action of the House of Representatives in refusing to seat Victor L. Berger drives him to direct action, which is nothing less than extreme socialism, I can only feel that his sense of extreme precision in justice has o'erleapt itself...
...chief direct service was that he served as a Fellow in the Corporation for twenty-six years, 1893-1919, with the utmost punctuality, assiduity, and devotion, and with high intelligence. Why was he chosen a member of the Corporation? Not because he was a successful banker and broker of State Street. Far from it. He was chosen because he was as fine an exemplar of the patriotic citizen-soldier as there was in the country or the world; because he gave the University two great gifts, one the Soldiers Field, on which he hoped that manly sports of many kinds...
...games. Spirit and team-play will go a long way toward winning football games, but every member of the Freshman squad realizes that, with Chapin, Kunhardt, and De Jonge, who have played a big part in the early games, forced to watch the contest from the sidelines, only the utmost effort by the team will bring victory Saturday...
From Buenos Ayres come the tidings that the University Federation of that city, a student organization, has threatened to call a country-wide strike of students if there is no Federal intervention between the Teachers' Union and the director-general of schools. This appears to be the utmost refinement of the sympathetic strike, more mention of which a new years ago would have set the world to laughing. Nowadays, however, causes little comment, because seemingly fifty per cent. of the population of the globe is either on strike or about...
...would abridge the right of free speech. Academic freedom of speech is closely related to general freedom of speech, with this difference: There may be reasons, more or less substantial, why a man should not be permitted utmost liberty of speech in institutions sustained by public or private funds. The organic law does not contemplate the surrender of the right of free speech by men in public institutions, but its right interpretation does place on all such men a higher that ordinary responsibility to the Government and the people. The wings of thought are not to be clipped by rules...