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Undergraduate opinion is sometimes worth much, often worth very little. Especially is the critical opinion of the worth of a fellow undergraduate a hazardous basis for just judgment. Just how much of the character-sketching done in last fall's reports on individual Freshmen written by that species of underclassmen known as Student Advisors possessed any real insight must remain a matter of conjecture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADVISING THE DEANS | 5/27/1927 | See Source »

...things, letting others search for the why and wherefore, or would you prefer for the next four years to try to understand the things that others are doing?" He sums up with the shrewd inquiry, "Do you want to make a living or a life?" His judgment is that the desire to "make a living" will find no satisfaction in a college education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SELECTIVE EDUCATION | 5/25/1927 | See Source »

...Negroes and their activities. TIME digests the opinions of Negro journalists, editors and authors. The Negro is interested in himself, and he buys TIME. Whether the policy of TIME is due to its more democratic attitude toward life, or the desire for a rational circulation, we leave to the judgment of the directing editors ; but we are gratified to note that TIME lends itself to a digest of the opinions of all races, groups and classes, and the Negro, like all other people, is interested in reading about himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 23, 1927 | 5/23/1927 | See Source »

...parlance, has the name of being an able and upright man, but a passionate, implacable foe of "Communism" in its every manifestation. He and Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, have been trying for months if not years to get the Cabinet to break with Russia, against the sober judgment of Premier Stanley Baldwin and Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Grave Step | 5/23/1927 | See Source »

Justice Peters retired and weighed long the doubtful right, weighed it carefully for 16 days. Then he oped the shell. He declared: "The Irish Republic never existed as a government de facto . . . and the Irish Free State could not, therefore, succeed it." From this logical conclusion Justice Peters gave judgment against both the Irish Republic (i. e. Mr. de Valera) and the Irish Free State. He directed, instead, that all legal costs arising from the action shall be paid out of the $2,500,000, and that what remains shall then be divided pro rata among the original contributors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Irish Oyster | 5/23/1927 | See Source »

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