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Every once in a while, at no regular interval, the world's philosophers-that is, its academic, its orthodox, not its whirling dervish, ivory tower or bucolic sawbuck philosophers-appoint a meeting place, and hold an International Congress of Philosophy. The last (fifth) Congress was in Naples in 1919. The one before that was in Paris, and indeed the Congress has never been held outside of Europe...
...publication of the Letters of Colonel E. M. House. One of these letters told of President Wilson's offering to President Eliot the post of ambassador to China in 1912. It was known that President Eliot had declined offers from both Taft and Wilson, who wished to appoint him ambassador to the Court of St. James'; but the story of his rejection of the Chinese post is entirely...
...recent meeting of the Freshman class officer: It was decided, contrary to the custom of former years, to appoint old; the committee heads and to have the rest of the committees appointed later by the Executive Board. This is to be composed of the five chairmen already listed and the three regular class officers...
...Democrats were making an onslaught on Secretary Mellon. There was a report of the Judiciary Committee before the House condemning the Attorney General for lax investigation of the company. There was also a resolution proposed by Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratic leader, to authorize the President to appoint special counsel to present evidence before a grand jury with a view to obtaining indictments against the company...
Section 2. The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year and such meetings shall be on the first Monday in January, unless they shall by law appoint a different...