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...reply to Litvinov. The Delegate of France, M. Joseph Paul-Boncour, takes him softly and indulgently to task for disparaging and seeking to hurry the progress of the League toward Security: a goal deemed inseparable from Disarmament. "If our progress has been slow," says M. Paul-Boncour, "the real fault lies in a lack of 'the international spirit' throughout the World, which no one can remedy...
...Rosa Ponselle had wrought the miracle. Not once had she flinched before the laciest coloratura passages, before measures that took her well into contralto regions, out again and up to the peak of the soprano scale. Her acting as the Druid priestess was less impressive; but critics found little fault, gave unqualified praise to her singing, to Conductor Tullio Serafin who found enough light and beauty in Bellini's score to make it well worth the revival...
W.F.C. Guest, Yale '27,: Overemphasis in studies is the main fault in my opinion. There is too serious a view of life at Harvard which detracts especially from the quality of the football team...
...sporting scribes of the day testify that Yale showed a woeful ignorance of the rules, and ascribes to that fault the overwhelming defeat which was her portion at the hands of Harvard. Four field goals and four touchdowns told the story of the Crimson's superiority. Yale was held scoreless...
...system in force at Columbia is flexible in the extreme; so flexible is it, in fact, that it is difficult to reach any general conclusions about it....It is here that Columbia's system is at fault, in allowing too much freedom to her undergraduates in removing too completely faculty direction of their choice of studies. This is a fault, however, that is infinitely more desirable than that which one finds in most of the colleges taken up in this article, that of allowing too little freedom to their students...