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...enormously good thing merely to exist. You must take whatever comes your way and make the best use of it possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Palmer Says Life is Enormously Good Thing and That Religion is Necessary--Gives Last Formal Lecture | 10/22/1929 | See Source »

...discredit and a dishonor as well as a menace. Is a nation going to refer its vital issues to arbitration when it has millions of men and 50,000 guns to put against a nation with 166,000 men and no guns? So long as these instruments of war exist there can be no real peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Two Speeches | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...over the country, notably at Yale and Johns Hopkins, are carrying on allied investigations. The Institute of Criminal Law inaugurated at Harvard earlier in the year is also working along the same general lines towards a reform in the criminal code. To these analyses of conditions as they exist in the United States, the Institute of Comparative Law, by extending the scope of investigations to other countries, will be able to add a broadened perspective and objective viewpoint that will prove to be of immense value...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMPARATIVE LAW | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...full schedule for a light weight eleven if it decided to have one. Time would have to be taken to bring the new idea to the attention of other colleges and more time would have to go by while they were considering it. If, on the other hand, there existed today some athletic conference made up of New England colleges, the whole matter could be discussed thoroughly and either approved or rejected within a much shorter comparative time. That such a conference does not exist today seems ridiculous, but it does not, and as a result if Mr. Bingham decided...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FEUDALISM IN SPORTS | 10/2/1929 | See Source »

...President Ernest Martin Hopkins had a stern welcome prepared for Dartmouth freshmen. Said he, in the convocation ad dress: "College officers are forced to hold due reservation and to remain only mildly impressed by eloquent contentions that colleges exist solely to satisfy the wishes of the undergraduates. . . . What seems best for mankind as a whole cannot be forgotten or ignored in college management for the specious satisfaction of con forming to an ephemeral undergraduate opinion or the desires of self-centered individuals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Prelude to Learning | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

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