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...Explain Versailles Pact...
Professor Barnes will explain during the course of his talk the nature of the present Versailles treaty and the political issues influencing its composition...
...week, with only 39 days in which to vote the budget for next year, Premier Poincaré convoked the Chamber and demanded that the 58 interpolations on the calender be postponed. Twenty-four of the 58 would-be interpolaters took advantage of the rule allowing them five minutes to explain what they wanted to talk about. Deputy Vaillant Couturier (Communist) screamed: "Mussolini is an assassin!" Calm, Premier Poincaré avoided an ''international incident" by pretending that the remark had been addressed to himself. Said he: "We are used to being called names by M. Vaillant Couturier." When...
Brander Matthews, Dean of U. S. critics: " 'I don't approve of it,' said I, bluntly last week, referring to the award to Bernard Shaw of the 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature. I refused to explain my stand, saying I was 'not looking for publicity.' I noted that Rebecca West, the distinguished English novelist, is reported to have said: 'In England we all feel it is perfectly absurd the Nobel Prize has never been awarded to Thomas Hardy. It is regarded as a grave reflection upon the manner in which the winner is selected...
...many ways, but one of the faults of this day and age is that of carrying things to excess. Nowhere is this better illustrated than in the field of statistics. All one needs to discover something of value is plenty of spare time and a Saturday pencil. This may explain the appearance of so many neat columns of figures nestling in the pages of newspapers and other periodicals, but that is about as far as most of the explanations carry. The not result of all the compilations additions divisions and applications or most statistics is nil. However the labor...