Word: neutralities
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...need is for a living religion rather than a neutral one, and it is the opinion of many that the present chapel is expressive of a certain phase of barren and starved religiosity that was so prevalent in New England several, centuries ago but that has long since spent itself and has gone out of existence. I feel that the time has come to replace this cold lifeless illustration of a worn-out conception by a more appropriate, and a more beautiful, representation...
...effort to explain the Menemen executions last week, Turkish officials an nounced that the Republic was "completely neutral" in the matter of religion, made no attempt to interfere with mosque services or missionary schools. It was, on the other hand, determined to suppress the dervishes because they were secret societies determined to bring Turkey back to the social forms of six or seven centuries...
...altogether desirable, for if it could be controlled it might be fun again. His suggested form of war "falls somewhere between a football match with large numbers of players on each side and an eighteenth-century battle." Rules: evenly matched forces (not more than 5,000 men a side), neutral umpires, short duration (two or three weeks). "The object of each army would be the capture of as many as possible of the enemy and of their company banners and regimental flags. . . . The agreed and standardized weapon would probably be a padded wicker helmet and a loin-protector. . . . I suggest...
...situation created by the Peace of Versailles," Major Bratt sees two imminent threats to world peace: 1) Bolshevism, "which will find it consistent with its plans for world revolution to make the conflagration as wide as possible," 2) the air weapon, which he thinks will make the position of neutral states impossible...
Since 1926, teams of the two universities have met on neutral grounds in intercollegiate tournaments or through the mediation of third parties. The triangular crew race between Harvard, Princeton and M.I.T., scheduled by invitation of the latter, is the latest of these instances, which are pleasant and desirable, but in no way capable of healing any breaches or fundamentally altering the status quo. We second the CRIMSON's motion that future meetings be held through the initiative for officials of the two institutions themselves. It is our opinion that negotiations in regard to football should be postponed until such date...