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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Train's idea in "The Hanging of the Angel" is very neat and the execution rather too full. This is certainly better writing than our average professional output. On the other hand, Mr. Hamblett's idea is better than his method; an excellent concluding sentiment, 'let the energy which might be spent in hating--turn to changing the conditions...

Author: By Maurice Firuski., | Title: UNDERGRADUATES ADJUDGED MORE LITERARY THAN USUAL | 12/18/1919 | See Source »

...believe China should retain possession of Shantung, and those who believe the sovereignty of that land is necessary to development and prosperity of Japan. And these two classes are each partial to their own view, tending to disregard the claims of the opposite side. It is on the sentiment of the Chinese people toward this question that the words of the Right Reverend Logan Herbert Roots '91, D.D., Bishop of Hankow, China, are of special moment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "AIM OF AMERICA TO ACT AS FRIEND TO CHINA AND JAPAN" | 12/12/1919 | See Source »

...Last August", he said, "just before I sailed from Hankow for America, I received an invitation to tea from a group of prominent Chinese merchants of Hankow. The opinion they presented to me on the Shantung difficulty represents the sentiment of the more modern Chinese business men, for my friends were not Chinese officials whose views are steeped in imperialism. They had called me in because they knew I was about to leave for America and they wished me to convey their views on Shantung to my friends here in America. What they said may best be retold in somewhat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "AIM OF AMERICA TO ACT AS FRIEND TO CHINA AND JAPAN" | 12/12/1919 | See Source »

Expressions of sentiment in the colleges on the most important public question of the day is a momentous experiment. One of the great weaknesses of our democracy is that our views, as a nation, are not organized. Certain groups, like the Chambers of Commerce, the American Legion, the Non-Partisan League, and the American Federation of Labor, occasionally carry on agitation and bring pressure to bear in order to influence legislation. And government in America has been defined as the result of the pressure of these organized opinions on the Central Legislative Body. But the great mass of American sentiment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ORGANIZING OPINION. | 12/10/1919 | See Source »

...referendum ballot in seven hundred colleges and universities in all parts of the country would represent as far as is possible a cross-section of the sentiment of the nation. Such a vote would have far more significance than the straw ballots recently held at Harvard and Yale and elsewhere; a nation-wide vote would eliminate the possibility of the charge of sectionalism and would not represent only one social class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ORGANIZING OPINION. | 12/10/1919 | See Source »

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