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...smoothed out the internal organization of the Department; he triumphed at the Washington Limitation of Armament Conference; yet in a large sense his record has been mediocre. The treaty of peace with Germany was routine work. The liquor search treaty with Great Britain is not an astounding bit of diplomacy. The vigorous pressing of American rights and claims in the Caribbean, the Pacific, and in the Dutch oil fields was perhaps the more or less automatic result of the pressure of interested business groups. The hope that this brilliant statesman would revolutionize American diplomacy has been quite unfulfilled...
...neatly pigeon holed at the hands of leering psychologists, two university professors have now undertaken to prove that one's poetic discrimination can be dissected and catalogued in the same way. The test, as set forth in the "New Republic" is simplicity itself. The student is shown a bit of verse by a reputable poet, who may be any one of a number ranging from Mother Goose to Carl Sandberg, and three artistically mutilated versions of the same. If he has a keen discrimination in poetry, he can pick out the original...
...forced and unnatural humor was Ralph Remley, who took the part of James the butler in a ludicrous fashion. Although she had but a few lines, Miss Roberta Lee Clark as Sadie Bloom, gave a very delightful and clever, interpretation of "the girl of the taxicab." She did her bit as well as anyone...
Here is a juicy bit of academic scandal but you mustn't say I told you or my informant will be annoyed...
There are two distinct schools of belief in regard to U. S. naval strength. One holds that the Navy is practically adequate-needs a bit of repairing and some incidental building, but should be viewed with no alarm because of weakness. The other holds that our Navy is outranged, outweighed, outsailed by the British and, in no small measure, by the Japanese. The holders of the first opinion include the Administration. The holders of the second are more scattered. They have been represented in particular by William B. Shearer, onetime U. S. naval expert (TIME...