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...happened in Geneva during the past week has happened before and will happen again. It is quite clear that the present arrangements for the protection of minorities are inadequate, but it is hard to see what more can be done without arousing international animosities and creating international tension. The fault lies in large part with the peace settlements, but there is little prospect of their being revised without war. Under the circumstances one is driven back to the hope that humanity will live and learn, that, in the words of a recent Czech writer, the exaggerated idea of nationalism will...
...Howie, not Horne. My fault as my writing is hard to decipher. Thank...
...Central of Georgia decreased about $4,000,000 or 13.15%. There was a disturbing drop of 25% in passenger business and an even more disturbing drop of 10% in freight business. Both passenger and freight revenue continued to fall during 1928, although their decline was not so precipitate. No fault of Mr. Pelley's however, was this unfortunate situation. It resulted chiefly from the collapse of the Florida boom and the increase in motor traffic...
...pour the malleable masses that now choke the educational machinery in Cambridge. Judging by undergraduate opposition to the House Plan, one must conclude that Harvard itself notices very little the clogging of its system. It is this refusal to consider as a weakness what others see as the major fault to be corrected that has caused the split in the Harvard camps; no amount of official assurance or calm approval from the outside can make the undergraduate believe that he needs a more settled world to live...
Even the college editors, well-informed as they are supposed to be, suffer from the same handicap of having only faulty images on which to base what they will say. The fault is, of course, not peculiar to college students; what is called public opinion is built on a foundation as shaky. Neither should the blame lie wholly on the undergraduates; in most universities there are conditions which keep from the student intimate knowledge of events. But where opinion can be based only on impressions it will never have more than a transitory value...