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Hamilton Holt has said, in substance, that one cannot study international relationship without becoming a convert to the idea of a league. This is true. The importance of some of the international questions already decided by The Hague Court has been underestimated. Included among these are the right to fly the flag (Muscat Dhows case) and the very serious question between France and Germany relating to deserters at Casa Blanca. It is evident from some of the speeches in the Senate that there is lacking an adequate appreciation of the extent to which international co-operation for the settlement...
...more compatible with serious work than obtains in some other medical centres. We believe that the Graduate School, with good management, has a great future before it. But it has no endowment, and is wholly dependent on the fees of its students. It has been obliged to convert its Monthly Bulletin into a Quarterly. This Bulletin is a legitimate and desirable means of informing the medical profession of the country of the establishment of the School, and of its activities...
...last soccer practice of the season was held yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field. The men have been working for the past four weeks under Coach Burgess, who has been in charge for several years. He has done much to convert the better men of the Freshman men into material for the regular soccer team...
...editorial portion of the number, Mr. Sessions or anybody else interested in the cause might cite the notice of the Sibelius symphony as an example of what musical criticism should not be. The nervous, chip-on-the -shoulder, lustily contemptuous attitude will never convert the unbeliever, whose objections will not be brushed aside with a cool "One need not reply to the above mentioned criticisms...
...propensities to idiocy, we are given a colorless conversation between MacFarland, his butler, and two friends in which the facts of the matter are made known. So far as there is any response from the audience, this information might as well have been printed in the program. Why not convert the butler into one of the hopeless men from headquarters and so make the dialogue in the act something more than narration...