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...Earl will be needed at home should a new Minister of War be appointed. Political opinion had it, however, that the project for the naval base at Singapore had been temporarily it not permanently shelved. Criticism was made against the projected naval base: 1) that the country could not afford the cost; 2) that it would divert a large number of warships from other important points; 3) that it would provoke Japan, whose relationship with Great Britain is now of the friendliest character; 4) that it gave impetus to the Dutch plans for a large East Indian Fleet...
Historically, no new material is offered than that contained in the current newspapers and periodicals, in government and other reports, and in publications of the day which are a matter of public knowledge. Of these the book may afford a fairly useful summary, but it does not fulfill the promise on the wrapper of making sensational disclosures. He does, to be sure, bring out the fact that Lenin and Trotsky offered to reject the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and renew the war against Germany, and offer which, for as yet unexplained motives, was not taken up by the Allies...
...University team will play its first intercollegiate game of the season tonight, when it meets Boston University at the Arena at 8.15 o'clock. The contest should afford an opportunity for Coach Winsor to try out his second and third string teams in action, which he was unable to do when the Crimson met the Aura Lees last Saturday. The game tonight will be three 15 minute periods...
...Capital News Service, speaking for the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite in the South, declared that the present Congress cannot afford to sidetrack the bill. "The pressure ... is overwhelming. Every patriotic and almost every fraternal order is behind it. Churches indorse it. Teachers, schools and colleges, alumni associations and undergraduates are for it. Chambers of Commerce and civic organizations demand it. Parents want it. School organizations want it. Almost every-one who knows anything about it wants it. ... The time has come when the United States should do as much for education as it does for wheat and corn...
...good enough for the high musical standards that now prevail in the U. S.-is obvious. The native artist cannot live on the prices paid to musicians, which, though enormous in figures, are drowned by the unfavorable exchange. But the American with a few dollars can live cheaply and afford to sing for next to nothing. Thus you will find Americans in nearly all the opera houses. They shine mightily in the absence of the good native artists who have been driven into foreign lands...