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...United States should take the normal position of non-intervention, for a nation can not interfere between two others except for the most weighty reasons. In the present case, any intervention would be a peculiarly serious move, because it would be a challenge to the principle of arbitration. The policy of the United States has been to support international arbitration and she has been the foremost in having disputes adjusted in a peaceful method...
...examples of serious Advocate verse have shown less straining after effect or more real beauty of simplicity than "The Sculptor of Milos," by Charles Wharton Stork. The central idea of the poem, it is true, seems on a second reading, falsely dramatic, and is not justified by the scant explanation of its motive; yet the ease of the lines and the unfailing interest in the thought go a long way toward helping the reader to overlook this defect. Another piece of verse, "March in Massachusetts," by L. W., makes one wish to drop work and get into the country...
...been made both at the Cambridge station and at the Observatory in Peru. From the observations made by Professor Wendell he disproves the statement that comets are perfectly transparent. In addition to data on these two subjects observations are recorded on missing asteroids, whose disappearance is regarded as a serious loss by astronomers...
...paper. The quaint humor which runs through the lines never seems to have been consciously sought after, and so becomes the more effective. Of the other verses, "A Song," by R. P. arrests one's attention with the swing of its lines. The thought, simply enough expressed, is more serious than most Advocate verse, but luckily was not entombed in a sonnet...
...dual fencing match which was to have been held with Cornell at Ithaca tomorrow has been postponed on notice from the Cornell management on account of the serious outbreak of typhoid fever at Ithaca...