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Professor Perry briefly outlined the unfortunate differences which arise in a period of reconstruction. The consideration of a national policy has caused a rupture in our thought but on Memorial Day we should put aside all differences of opinion. "All democracies", he said, "are easily panic stricken and our nineteenth century machinery is not sufficient to express our twentieth century feeling". He said that we did not know how to spell the word "world court". "It sounds too complicated for us. Lincoln was generations ahead of his time in thinking of the good of humanity as a whole...
...long ago some hyphenated historical societies revealed their discoveries that there were no real Americans in American history. The German-American Society declared that "up to the end of the Nineteenth Century the country was populated and cultivated principally by Teutons". Without the Swedes and the Germans, we are told, "the adoption of our constitution and union of our states would not have been accomplished". An Irish Society, reporting on "The Irishman as the Builder of the Nation", has disclosed a Celtic ancestor for George Washington; while Jewish-Americans in commemorating the death of General Solomon announced...
...that organization opens its biennial convention in Rome, and Mrs. Catt has announced that she will finally retire from the Presidency which she has held since 1904. As a lecturer and woman suffrage leader she is known throughout the country and also as a most prominent advocate of the Nineteenth Amendment. During recent months she has been touring South America, arousing the proponents of suffrage in those countries. Her last official act as President of the International Alliance will be to make a report on the woman movement in these Latin countries...
...summary of the matches follows: Captain Stimpson (N) defeated Richard Keene, 4 and 3; J. W. Allen (H) defeated Lowell (N), 3 and 2; Captain C. J. Henderson (H) defeated Willing (N), 1 up (at nineteenth hole); Donnelly (N) defeated Kennard Woodworth (H), 4 and 3; J. S. Grimes (H) defeated Arnold...
President Lowell in considering "Harvard Traditions" briefly summarized the founding and development of the college, how it was established by the state and maintained by the state for many years before it came under private ownership and finally outlined the growth of the institution during the nineteenth century...