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...most important problems yet to be settled by separate negotiation, included in the first Treaty, are: settlement of the Ottoman Debt; regulation of concessions; settlement of the Mosul question and the Iraq-Kurdistan frontier; conclusion ol separate judicial treaties granting rights of complaint to foreign legal advisers in place of capitulations. Although the treaty is signed, it must still be ratified by the Powers concerned before it becomes valid...
Lord Grey, ex-Foreign Minister, said that both sides had cause for complaint. It was obviously unfair for America to let foreign ships attract the bulk of passengers by allowing them to take liquor into the territorial limit. On the other hand it was equally annoying for foreign ships to be deprived of liquor for the whole of the return journey. As Prohibition in the United States was likely to stand, he thought it was extremely advisable that the two Governments should reach an amicable arrangement. He further suggested that the two Governments should publish the full correspondence...
London has forgotten for the moment the complaint that her stage was overrun with American productions and has turned to welcome the cardinal artists of the Italian and French theatres. Eleanora Duse, who has been quoted by London correspondents as more than meditating on an American tour, is giving Tuesday and Thursday matinees at the New Oxford theatre to packed stalls. Ibsen forms the backbone of her repertory. Dividing the honors are Lucien and Sacha Guitry, assisted by the latter's wife, Yvonne Printemps. The Times concludes an extended eulogy of this distinguished trio with the comment: " Well, we have...
...students share, and undergraduates criticisms are perhaps worth considering. These criticisms are few: it is recognized that the only fair basis of choice for a scholarly society is scholarship, and that non-intellectual activities cannot be counted except when the scholastic records of two candidates are equal. But the complaint may reasonably be made that the society is too limited in its numbers...
Perhaps the most surprising note in these suggestions is the recurrence of one particular complaint the Tutoring Schools. Among a host of miscellaneous ideas, the repeated condemnation of those institutions stands out as one those institutions stands out as one fault on which most of the Senior were agreed. And the objections were not raised merely by onlookers who were jealous at seeing others get better marks with less effort, nor by men who regard these schools as inconsistent with the best college ethics; they seemed in many cases to come from men who had tried and had been disillusioned...