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...free to say that I should have far less hope for a significant product of the Court's functioning if we did not have also the League of Nations. For instance, the Court may give advisory opinions requested by the Council of the League of Nations. Senator Borah has been opposing this function, and apparently wants the United States to say that they must be abolished. Why? Because they don't work well? He does not say that. Indeed, I do not see how any informed student could say it. The fact that the United States Supreme Court does...
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What would happen to our efforts if every country insisted on making a World Court follow the practice of its own Supreme Court? Senator Borah says that this advisory function reduces the Court to the position of a legal advisor to the Council and subjects it to political influence. I have searched the record of the four years' work and the eighteen cases already handled and I have not found the slightest foundation for such a statement. The Council has its own legal advisers. I myself have served in the legal section of its Secretariat, and I know something...
...Harvard Dramatic Club, especially since the official abandonment by Harvard University of courses in practical theatre art, seems to me to have an important function, the function of keeping alive or of awakening among students of the rising generation, a serious interest in the problems of the contemporary theatre, and of giving them, also, an opportunity to practice the arts of the theatre...
...total of 941 votes cast, only 268 favored the measure. The reason was not far to seek. At present every exchange member knows that his "seat" is worth in excess of $130,000. Should more seats be added, the laws of supply and demand would function to lower that value. No exchange member wishes his "equity" to be affected. Therefore the present excessively heavy movements in securities on the exchange (TIME, Oct. 26, et seq) will continue to take place without an increase in the number of the opulently seated. The Governing Board's proposal was the first...