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...Dail Eireann ? Free State Parliament?gave full consideration to the De Valera peace proposals. It characterized them as childish and irrelevant. Even Deputy Johnson, Irish Laborite, said: " I think too much importance is attached to a general election to find out the people's will. ... It should be obvious to De Valera that the people's will was very clearly expressed, not by votes but by conduct, action and acceptance of the Government Constitution and the jurisdiction of the Dail and the Senate...
...stay in Harvard just about a year and a half. Then, after a painful scene in University 4, he goes west, heaves coal for a year, and becomes a man worthy of the girl he loves. It's not a startlingly unusual plot. The style is a bit childish in spots and sometimes a little too melodramatic, but never uninteresting. We suspect that Mr. Husband wrote rather hurriedly and failed to revise his work, since there are a number of contradictory statements. For instance, on page 31 we read that Arthur Clark had won his numerals in Freshman football...
Internationalism may as the Transcript suggests, be silly. Patriotic pride may be one of the goods of life. But to require the schools to teach a Deutschland Uber Alles jingoism in order to inculcate joy in the childish heart is a silly and dangerous thing...
...books from the library of Charles Sumner is on exhibition in the Treasure Room of Widener Library. One of the most interesting exhibits is the Greek exercise book used by John Dryden while a student at Westminster school. The fly-leaf bears the famous author's signature in a childish hand. A large Bible bearing on its fly-leaf the signature of John Bunyan and a copy of Pindar with marginal notes by John Milton are on exhibit, as is a ponderous copy of the Nuremberg Chronicle with woodcuts by Michael Wolgemuth and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff. Among the manuscripts, which...
...proposed reservation to the Four-Power Treaty is so drawn as to be meaningless now and forever it is a childish gesture unworthy of the Senate. If, on the other hand, it is worded so as to mean something no (as it seems to) or so as perhaps, to mean something in the future, it is open to objection not only in connection with this particular treaty but on broad considerations of national policy...