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...career. Only her deep friendship for a dour Scottish spinster, whose plays became successful, saved her, and when they quarreled over votes-for-women Janet was completely broken. She tried to set fire to her husband's church, drove him out of his mind, worked in a settlement house until her early death...
Both talks bear on a connected study of criminology and settlement work which Brooks House is projecting for the winter...
...genesis of his talk was that the years since the Treaty of Versailles have witnessed a steady disintegration of the post-war settlement into a state of affairs almost exactly analagous to that existing just before the World War. He pointed out how the recent rapprochement of Germany and Italy had consolidated the old central bloc in Europe, and how France, Great Britain and Russia stand in almost exactly the same relation as they...
...effort into the negative task of preventing trouble. He kept his head while around him plotters, many of them with Grant's support, worked for war with England and Spain, the annexation of Santo Domingo and Canada. The one real achievement of Grant's Administration was the settlement of the Alabama Claims by the first great arbitration of modern history, in which Fish, able, conciliatory, determined, blocked Sumner's extravagant demand that England pay for the prolongation of the Civil War in the same fashion that he blocked Secretary of War Rawlins' demand for an attack...
...plans of the History Department toward relieving tutors of undue burdens attack an abuse of long standing. Plans A and B, as operating at present, however, fall short of an ideal settlement. Carried to their logical conclusion, these schemes would develop into a complete division between men fit to receive tutorial instruction and those...