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After more than a month of daily contact with the League this summer I feel that one thing is outstanding,--the League is growing in influence and gaining in confidence all the time. The Third Assembly was much more successful in actual results achieved than either of the first two. Lord Robert Cecil's Disarmament scheme, or, more accurately, Reduction through a Pact of Mutual Guarantees, to be presented next year; a definite agreement by four great League members to get Austria on her feet; the sending of Nansen to Constantinople to care for the Greek refugees; and work...
Governor Norris denied the extreme view that the System controls the volume of credit, calling attention to the facts that it has no dealings with the speculative markets and no direct contact with the general public; that two-thirds in number of the banks of the country have no discount relations with it at any time, and that it is seldom that more than half of the remaining third, or one-sixth of the total, are borrowing from Reserve Banks...
...matters of classical interest. In this way the officers hope to give to undergraduates an interesting introduction to classical scholarship and a chance to meet the faculty of the department outside the routine of classes. In short, hereafter, the club is to serve as an additional point of contact between the professors, graduate students, and the undergraduate who is just embarking on a career in the classics. The advantages to be gained from any workshop or technical laboratory of this sort have been proved too often to be open for dispute. To the ordinary man they are unknown...
...course conflicts with an English course which is not to be given the next year, and the year after that the course is limited to Freshmen and Sophomores, and so on. The sum total of it all is, that many men graduate from college without ever having come in contact, due to no fault of their own, with more than a few of the faculty, even through the impersonal medium of the lecture hall...
...local murder cases than to the signs of the times. That there should be such an apathy toward the happenings in the Near East, or anywhere outside the gates of our own cities, is deplorable. The world has reached a stage where all sections are coming into close contact. In such a situation a policy of disinterested aloofness can lead only to disaster. Here and there, it is true, a few individual efforts are being made to combat this smugness in the American mind. The latest example is a new magazine, "Foreign Affairs", under the editorship of Professor Archibald Carey...