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There was only one child that he found really suitable for their purpose ?the Permanent Court of International Justice, nicknamed the "League Court." The manner of adoption which he proposed was very simple: to snip the cord which attached the Court to the League and strike the word League from the Court's surname...
...indictment was based was absolutely insufficient. Next day Senator Sterling spoke for a little over three hours, declaring that, whether or not Mr. Wheeler was guilty, the evidence was sufficient to warrant an indictment, and that the Senate ought not to express itself on the subject in a manner which might prejudice Mr. Wheeler's forthcoming trial. Next day another three-hour debate followed, Mr. Sterling alone on his side and subject to the attacks of the combined Democrats who were defending their colleague...
...raise the academic standards of the college is a wise and necessary procedure; but the lifting pressure should be exerted at the bottom-during the first year-not at the topic. Then too, to use George Ade, "in uplifting, get underneath:" The manner in which the Divisional examinations are made out, and the alrenuousness with which they are marked are, after all, only the most external of reforms. What needs changing is not the student's scholarship, but his way of looking at scholarship. And that change can be brought about only by the lectures and adhereats of scholarship themselves...
Turning again to the undergraduate contributors, Mr. Abbott's sonnet deserves especial praise; but we deplore Mr. Marshall's idiosyncrasies in the modern manner, both of matter and arrangement, and we confess to a down-right bitterness in regard to Mr. Mangan's "Crest". Mr. LaFarge's second contribution must bring our review to a close. It is a story, excellently conceived and skillfully written, perhaps too skillfully, for at the end there is little but its conpetence and its manner to carry it on. There is a sort of frustrate maturity about the Advocate at times which prevents...
...unveiled a bust by Evelyn Longman in the Hall of Fame. The likeness was given by Wellesley College, the presentation made by Dr. Ellen Fitz Pendleton, President of Wellesley, the speech in praise of Mrs. Palmer and her great importance to the nation delivered in a simple and appreciative manner by Dr. James R. Angell of Yale University...