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...revolution was predicted in India as the inevitable outcome of any tampering with the opium trade. Just what advantage is to be derived from destroying the opium interests of the East through economic rather than political means is dubious. Poppy raisers will doubtlessly object as much to disasterous competition by cheap synthetic opium producers as to fatal government protocols...
...very statement of this fundamental objection refutes its importance. To give advice on legal affairs or politico-legal affairs to the League or to any government is in itself not contrary to the primary purpose of the court: to aid in the establishment of world peace. The old Hague Tribunal to which Senator Borah can hardly object on principal went almost this far, and should certainly have gone that...
...object of the University offer It has been emphasized, is not to discontinue the Colonial Club but to assure the ownership of the land which is almost completely surrounded by college property. It is possible that sometime in the future the yard may be expanded beyond its present limits and the corporation wishes to make sure that there will be no complications with outside landholders...
...placing of students who want employment. It ought to be possible for every ambitious student without funds to work his way through Harvard. No effort should be spared to assist the kind of man who wants an education badly enough to work for it. This is to be the object of Mr. Daly's work...
There is no such absolute direction as "down" (or "up") in the universe at large. "Down" is the direction of pull of the Earth's gravity. The rotation of the Earth has no effect on the "up" or "down" direction of any person or object on the Earth's surface...