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...Germans have held together through common inheritance of the agelong tradition of loyalty to the chief, handed down from the wandering tribes of the "Germania" in Tacitus's day. France, shaken by revolutions half a dozen times in the last hundred and thirty years, has emerged with a strong central government through the triumphant tradition of the Roman Law and Gallic belief in the sacredness of property. But Mexico has none of these. The degenerate, confused Latin tradition of the Gonquistadores had not time to become rooted in the semi-barbarous Mexican soil before the yoke of Spain was thrown...
...judging such a question it is a common error for Americans to neglect to put themselves in the position of those they criticise. We, for example, cannot imagine any one regarding a lizzard as a common "animal" any more than we expect to find monkeys infesting the trees in Central Park. We therefore jump to the conclusion: As a matter of fact, the Argentines have the very best reasons for regarding the lizzard as worthy of protection. No doubt the latter is as familiar a sight down there as the common cat is in this country...
...this purpose. If there is no space in Widener available, there are odd rooms in some of the other buildings in the Yard which could be converted to this sort of a common-room for day students without much expense or trouble. By establishing such a room in a central location, without the dues contingent upon--membership in the Union; the present "conversation-tables" could be eliminated from the Reading-Rooms, silence could be enforced, and the "atmosphere of study" which is now supposed to permeate Widener would become a fact...
...without question a gainer by the Treaty, obtaining, besides much prestige, such security for her possessions as the provisions already quoted indicate. But the other powers gain in this way also; all four can feel that their lands in the Pacific are safer. In this fact lies the central importance of the Four-Power Treaty; it lessons the need for naval armament. If it fails, says Senator Lodge, disarmament will fail. As soon as certain of the Senators can make up their minds as to whether the treaty is good or bad--despite the undeniable handicap of not knowing...
...Reverend W. L. Sperry, minister of Central Congregational Church in Boston, is to give the Dudleian lecture on Monday, May 1, in the Quiet Room of the Union. His subject will be "The Present Duties of the Christian Minister". The Dudleian lecture is given annually under the will of Judge Paul Dudley who died...