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...annual graduation exercises of the Andover Theological Seminary will take place tomorrow. The day will open with a service in the Andover Chapel, at which time Dr. Charles F. Carter of Hartford, chairman of the Board of Trustees of the school, will confer the degrees. The speakers on this occasion will be Mr. F. W. Thompson '16, Mr. Matsu Hara, a graduate of the school from Japan, and a Hindu guest, Mr. B. P. Hivale. After the graduation exercises in the chapel, there will be an alumni dinner at the Colonial Club. Dr. Davison will be in charge...
...Much of the talk which we hear and of the writings we read in regard to reconstruction is vague, and it is worthy of remark that the fundamental question is so seldom or so lightly referred to. By the shock of war our Government was obliged to confer under the war powers of the Constitution enormous authority upon the Executive, and thereby put the operation of the Government into an abnormal condition...
Associate Professor S.B. Wolbach, M. D. '03, of the Medical School, and Dr. John Todd of McGill University, have arrived at Geneva to confer with the general medical director of the league of Red Cross societies concerning inquiries the league will carry on in Poland in connection with the study of typhus fever. Other members of the mission are proceeding to Poland...
...ridiculous assertion that Mr. Lansing's calling cabinet members together to confer on inter-departmental matters constituted an assumption of executive power, if this assertion is not the real motive for his dismissal, the President's selection of a pretext is exceedingly unfortunate. The whole correspondence, moreover, lacks entirely that generesity of spirit that helped to make Woodrow Wilson the spokesman of the world. Public sentiment is overwhelmingly in sympathy with Robert Lansing, and, unless new facts come to light, the nation is sure to judge this incident as one of the most unhappy of the Wilson administration...
That the United States Golf Association will send a committee abroad to confer with the Royal and Ancient Committee of St. Andrews on possible changes in the golf rules was definitely decided at a recent meeting of the association. Mr. George H. Walker, the new president, declared in his inaugural address that the game of golf should be ruled by the players and that such questions in the rules as the stymie, the standardization of the ball, the lost ball and "giving advice" should be thoroughly probed at this conference...