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...connection with war, until now--and that the German mind, when it sees itself defeated, invariably turns to self-palliation and vague excuses. Perhaps the difference is one of inborn moral sense; the Germans may never be able to realize that the submarine campaign, as conducted, was wrong. Indeed, Neumann's "prosecutor" himself admitted that while it would be contrary to the Hague Treaty to sink a hospital ship carrying men from a naval engagement, on the other hand an attack upon the same ship loaded with troops wounded in land service, would constitute no violation of international agreements...
...country may favor this economy, as was claimed, or it may not. But no matter where it stands, there seems to be a rift in the lute of the administration's peace. Something has gone wrong, certainly, when two such widely divergent policies can be brought to light within the same twenty-four hours. President Harding may have been more strongly affected than he know by the sight of the coffins on the pier; or the Senate may have suddenly become over-enthusiastic in its efforts. Whatever it was, administrative co-ordination apparently does not work at long-distance range...
...announces the adoption of a new and somewhat involved plan of managership competition. A point record has been created involving Personality, Executive Ability, Industry, Reliability, Efficiency and Scholarship. Presumably the previous system at Cambridge was much like our own. Someone will probably pop up and say, "Something must be wrong with Yale's system." We seriously doubt this weakness in managership "heeling" and furthermore question whether the new plan will produce better managers, because...
...knowledge, even if their students do not know an artichoke; nor are the colleges guilty of a grave omission in their duties; nor are professors and students more ignorant now than they used to be. If these examiners are seeking to expose really dangerous ignorance, they are on the wrong track; if they are trying to tell the undergraduate to read more good books, and talk more about serious things, and feel more at home, therefore among men who, if they cannot work for Mr. Edison, are considered educated gentlemen, then they are doing a good work...
That injustice is caused by having Southern whites elect representatives of negroes, supposedly voters, cannot be denied. A similar wrong is occasioned in the North by having whites choose legislators who really also represent other whites, disqualified because of ignorance...