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...past, no criticism has gone farther astray than much of the criticism of Shakspere's plots", said Professor G. L. Kittredge '82 in discussing the tragedy of "King Lear" last night in Sanders Theatre. Professor Kittredge confined himself chiefly to a broad view of the plot, bringing in the characters only as they vitally concerned the structure of the play...
...China", writes Marcel Rouff in an article reprinted in the current "Living Age", "offers the world an unprecedented example of a nation wise enough not to be led astray by our stupidly standardized civilization". The author recalls that this even-tempered nation of the Orient herself represents a mature and wise civilization which has escaped the ruinous fate of Babylon, Greece, and Rome, and the annihilation which we are told awaits the Occident in its headlong flight. And today, M. Rouff adds, China embraces four hundred million peaceful souls, fearless of death and sublimely happy, loyal, content, filled with self...
...seems logical that if navies are very much reduced some association for defense must be established among the powers. Such an association is nothing but Article X in the Covenant of the League of Nations; the proposal of the "Temps" is also identical with it. Where American opinion goes astray is in its failure to perceive that, since the Conference cannot stop half way, we again must face the problem of Article X. Whether directly through the League of Nations, or indirectly through limitation of armaments, the road to our ideal of universal peace is at present blocked by Article...
...Lloyd George, however, has some understanding of political conditions in this country, and is not altogether led astray by Senatorial ebullitions. Although his analogy between De Valera and Jefferson Davis seems to give too much credit to the former, it serves to remind the Senate of its proper sphere of operations. By rejecting the League of Nations, the Senate announced its intention to stay at home and mind nobody's business but its own. Surely such an announcement is somewhat inconsistent with the Irish resolution, whereby the same Senate plunges its finger, nay, its whole fist into the international...
...other hand, Hoover is a constructive worker. He has his eye on the job, and he doesn't deal in platitudes. He takes concrete measures for betterment. He is no mere theorist, no mere social worker who might be led astray by fine ideals, for he is a man who is accustomed to dealing with the great men of the world...