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...Hollis followed Bowers and closed the affirmative side of the debate. He concerned himself chiefly with the objections which Americans raise against the League of Nations. He maintained that people in the United States admit the idealism of the League but object to it for certain practical considerations. These objections he endeavored to sweep away...
...finds himself on probation because of failure to show a reading knowledge of one language or an elementary knowledge of the other, in spite of three or more attempts to pass the requirement, feels himself unjustly treated. Worse than that, he loses entirely any benefit from the original object of the Requirements,--to force on every undergraduate a working ability to read text-books in French or German...
...mail but on it. The bulk of the nation's correspondents will be greeted by the beaming face of George Washington, properly labeled; a smaller number for three cents receive knowledge of Abraham Lincoln; every citizen staying at home during the summer will get post cards bearing an object lesson in thrift, the picture of Benjamin Franklin. Because the ignorant foreigner must not be overlooked, he will receive on his letters a rotogravure in color of Theodore Roosevelt. Those who insist upon buying their clothes and house furnishings by mail will be edified by a print of the Yosemite Valley...
...fill in some bad holes in his knowledge, and another to get a "close-up" of a subject he has seen from afar in a general course, and above all, if it helps the average schedule-fettered undergraduate to prepare for his Divisionals, it will have accomplished its object...
...object of the Shelton Hale Scholarship, which is open only to first year students in the Harvard Law School, is to assist those who seek "a legal education under stress of financial difficulties". The award is made on the excellence of the candidate at the annual examination, which covers in detail the work of the first year to date; coupled with his general ability as shown by letters of recommendation and the like, and his record in college. The examination will last four hours...