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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even the fact that the editorial staff of the CRIMSON must find or make controversial material for their columns is not a sufficient excuse for the lack of understanding with which the question of a weekly board charge under the House Plan has been approached...
...most reassuring part of the whole matter is the thought that with as fine a group of men as will be associated with the Houses as Tutors and with as comfortable and agreeable surroundings as the Houses will afford there will probably be no question of anyone's eating a large majority of meals in his House. Many other minor objections will doubtless be forgotten as soon as men are actually living in the Houses. G. C. St. John...
...says that the thesis is due the week following the examination. This may be technically true, but permit me to state that the examination took place on December 9 and the thesis is due on December 20, giving a span of eleven days. Finally, your article describes a question on the examination as "covering one fourth of the time treated in the first half year." This statement is not exactly clear to me, but I fear it may give rise to an erroneous impression. The subject-matter of the question was discussed in two lectures out of more than thirty...
These are all points of factual detail, but the treatment given them in your article is not such as will inspire confidence that the second question called for an essay on the July Monarchy, but it is clear to me from his further remarks, that he understood this to mean that he was to write the history of the July Monarchy in twenty minutes. His estimate of my judgment seems to be desperately low, but let that pass. My real purpose was to find out what the members of the course would say about the July. Monarchy if they...
...those of Koltchak and Denekin, which were paid for with American money. As to the third, hostile propaganda, it is a well known fact that Mussolini is conducting in this country propaganda foreign to our ideals but we have not refused recognition to Italy, and, further, there is some question whether the United States, in the many Latin American nations under its thumb, as well as by its heavy subsidies to Poland, is not doing infinitely more, in the way of White propaganda, than the Comintern ever attempted...