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...consequence of the settlement of the Upper Silesian question, Germany was ordered, by the League of Nations, last year, to pay to Poland the $1,500,000 which Polish Silesians had paid to the Berlin Government as premiums on compulsory social insurance. Germany did not object, but a reminder from the Polish Government in January that the amount was shortly falling due elicited this reply from Berlin : "Apply to S. Parker Gilbert [Agent General of Reparations] to have the amount deducted from the reparations payments." The matter came to light, last week, when Secretary General of the League, Sir Eric...
...Government annulled the concession on the ground that the U. S. had not been induced to recognize Russia; but, not being willing to cancel the contract on this ground, a technical reason was found. Whatever the cause of the Russian Government's action, it at least provided an object lesson to others of the difficulty of dealing with an unrecognized government...
...generation or more ago the Hemenway Gymnasium was an object of pride and amply served the needs of the University of its time. Since then the college and the graduate schools have grown enormously. The capacity of the gymnasium is now taxed to the utmost, while the facilities offered are in many cases antiquated and unsatisfactory. The small size of the basketball court furnishes an excellent example of this...
...that "today neither Harvard nor any other great Protestant college gives the first consideration to the peace and prosperity of the Christian Church." Doubtless the speaker was impelled by the best motives in making this sweeping and very vague statement, and therefore we are sure that lie will not object if we take him seriously, for Harvard, though nowadays surrounded by institutions whose competitions it welcomes, is an outstanding factor in the national life. Were this not done, Harvard might be left in a very parlous condition; wept over as unregenerate by Cardinal O'Connell a short time...
Then, there is Lawrence Sterns who re...lls the almost medieval past. He is remembered for the days when a five volume novel was considered a short story and when whole chapters were filled with declamation on a single object. That all this voluble writing was not taken too seriously, however, is shown by a letter addressed by Mr. Sterne to his publisher. He refers to his somewhat sordid volumes of Tristram Shandy as his "seven or eighth graceless children" but promises the publisher that he will make up for it by "begetting a couple of ecclesiastick ones" to atone...