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...other technique in the world seems to improve at such a pace as that of war. The Utopia of the artists of war advances daily nearer. General Maitrot, a Frenchman, has made a forecast of the future that is half vision and half possibility. France, he says, has since the armistice developed projectiles so powerful that a dozen of them would wipe out a city the size of Berlin. Another type of bomb, lately perfected, will infallibly sink a cruiser at sea if exploded within a hundred feet of it. The Germans-General Maitrot seems to have certain information...
...selection of a western-born, western-trained president should become a counterbalancing factor of the first importance. A man who has seen over the tops of the Alleghenies never forgets that vision. The Great Lakes, the Father of Waters, the Rockies and the Pacific are always in his view. Dean Angell, as Chicago still calls him, will undoubtedly make Yale's aspirations toward maintaining its national character more pregnant with reality than would a man whose life has been bounded by the valleys of the Connecticut and the Hudson...
Where the swarming of Harvard graduates over Connecticut will end is by no means clear in the vision of Yale men. The report that Prof. James Rowland Angell, a Harvard graduate, has been chosen president of Yale by the university corporation has intensified a situation which has been growing complicated for several years...
...they are not able to carry on a systematic discussion of undergraduate problems such as the conference will be able to do. Actual meeting with the leaders in the same line of activities from other colleges and the comparison of conditions, means, and methods will give a clearer vision and a more able understanding of the problems. Harvard's Student Council voted not to send representatives to the conference, and was condemned by the CRIMSON in an editorial headed "Splendid Isolation", for not doing so. Brown has taken the right step in deciding to have men at the conference...
...disgrace to this great University, that has turned out so many men of great vision as well as keen intellect, that our paper should be guilty of fanning the flames of hysteria by jumping to the conclusion that the fire at Worcester was the deliberate plot of Reds simply because "it is the suspicion of many officials" that "it was of incendiary origin." Suppose it was of incendiary origin, have we any right to conclude that "the finger of guilt seems to point to Bolshevism...