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What Senors Aguinaldo, Quezon, and the others will have to say at Washington will be of great interest in showing the Filipino side of the question. At present, the grounds of native dissatisfaction, beyond an ethereal vision of the glories of nationhood, are not clear. The Philippines under American protection have autonomy. If permitted to go entirely free, they would gain little more control of their government than they have today, and they would lose what advantages they now possess under American guidance and protection...
...Such is vision. And from this tale the discerning,--yea, he who runs,--may perhaps read why a little, old New England college, named Harvard, became, under this man's guidance, one of the universities of the world...
Fifty-six years ago the University authorities suppressed the "Collegian" after its third number, giving no warning and only the vaguest reasons. But "veritas nihil veretur", and two months later the "Advocate" appeared. Since that time, thanks to the vision of the past and present officers of the University, the right to speak has been recognized, and for teachers and students alike it has become established beyond question...
...pictures the woes that Russia has had to put up with, conditions which he has observed first hand, since war and Sovietism have been visited upon her. Most normal people agree that the present state of affairs is impossible; and here they stop. Count Tolstoy, with perhaps some vision of his father, a true lover of democracy, can look upon the present horrors and still find cause for optimism. He feels that Russia will rise triumphant out of chaos to become the United States of Russia. In these days when that nation is either a complete myth or a hopeless...
...Indy is today one of the two foremost figures on the French musical horizon. As a youth, with the vision of youth, he recognized the genius of Wagnerian music when it was generally condemned in France. He attached himself to Cesar Franck, greatest of recent composers, and remained loyal to his master throughout his bitter struggle to reform French taste and introduce the new musical standards. His reward has come in seeing Wagner and Franck justified, France raised to a high place in the musical world, and himself made leader of one of her two greatest musical institutions. With Saint...