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...real League is no longer of importance, the Model League can scarcely serve any useful purpose. The criticism misses its point. As a school in the particular kind of parliamentary procedure used at Geneva, the Model League was never of any more consequence than a travelling menagerie. The real function of the League was in stirring up student interest in world affairs at a time when the American undergraduate was peculiarly apathetic on that score...
...question may be asked, however, whether this function is any longer of much importance. Any student whose apathy to world problems has resisted all the arresting events of the last year will scarcely be stimulated by any amount of empty pageantry. And the Model League could never do much more than arouse interest. In applying this interest, once aroused, there are too many channels more effective than the Model League...
Admittedly intended by the Actors Equity as an economic measure, the Dickstein bill is one of the more ridiculous attempts in recent years at the perversion of the legislative function to private ends. In the first place, as an economic measure the bill's validity is practically nil, since the present number of foreign actors in the United States is surely not so enormous as to hinder the possible employment of local talent now out of work. Even as a bit of private weaseling the bill is pitifully transparent. On the one hand, it is a sop to the actors...
...action of these members was caused by the belief that in campaigning alone, they can function more swiftly and efficiently. The members of the group have not withdrawn from the Liberal Club and Josephy remains chairman of the Political Actions Committee, but the fight for an investigation of Long will henceforth be divorced from that organization...
...that Yale has the new College Plan which in its many manifestations is extremely vague to the outsider, an organization of Yale men who would explain the purpose and function of this plan in preparatory schools would be of inestimable value...