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...League of Nations. The proposal did not necessitate our joining the League. It did provide that we should vote with members of the League to elect judges of the Court, that we should pay our share of the Court's expenses, that we could ask the Court to function on our affairs, when we preferred, that we could abide by its decisions, if we preferred-no more...
...industry, in domestic relations, and as child-bearers, after a continuous struggle of half a century. Women leaders opposed to the extremist tactics of the National Women's Party assert that because of the fundamental and inescapable differences between men and women in physique, endurance, and social function, the relinquishment of women's privileges would plunge them back into chattel slavery-a slavery dictated not by the superior authority of men, as formerly, but by the logic of economic necessity...
...Blue Book, an unpretentious volume, will narrate the class activities for the year, list each member with his individual record, and serve as a handy directory. As long as it is not made too elaborate, and does not unnecessarily duplicate the Red Book, it performs a reasonable and useful function...
...series which ends with this lecture has been profitable to students and "outsiders" alike, as the record attendance has shown. It is an added function toward making the General Examinations effective. These condensed introductions to the great authors, brief as they must be at least break the ground for the student who must do most of his preparation unassisted; and they make his study something more than the mere reading of taxis. Next year, the series should not only be repeated, but extended to include others of the recommended authors, such as Sophocoies, Aristotle, and Cervantes. The names of this...
...produced by them. Signs are, indeed, not lacking that as the motor car, the airplane, the motion picture, cease to be novelties, and the war, for the present at least, seems a theme too sickening to dwell on overmuch, the novel is returning to some of the old function as the chief stimulus to those who feel the imaginative force waning...