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japan, in particular, whose spokesman at first, before the Conference began, made public their willingness, if not preference, to have naval armaments limited without reference to any settlement of disputes over the Far East, has found that the limitation of naval armament as presented in the form of the Hughes proposal will vitally affect her status as an Asiatic power, unless she knows what the policy of other Powers are toward conditions that touch what she feels to be her national security. She has made this plain by proposing, though not officially and publicly, the relative naval power be determined...
Perhaps there is some good reason why the Phillips Brooks House ignores the possibilities which the Harvard Square urchins offer. It may be because whereas in Roxbury and else-where there are already well equipped settlement houses, Harvard Square has none in its vicinity. If that is the case an appeal to the civic pride of the neighborhood would not be unprofitable...
...Cambridge the exchange is unable to give satisfaction to a great many anxious individuals. Whether they will spend their wrath on the present wearers of their hats is a question to be answered shortly. At any rate the CRIMSON hat exchange is open for business today for the amicable settlement of disputes. It stands first and last for law and order--and hats...
...burden of taxation. But let those who doubt the sincerity of the Conference and are therefore inclined to take President Harding's program as an indication that their suspicions are not unfounded, exercise a little foresight--they may see that palpable reduction of armaments can come only after the settlement of the Eastern question; and they may find cause for satisfaction in President Harding's boldness in this direction, realizing that concrete proposals in this matter will lead to concrete results in the reduction of armaments...
...biological processes of improvement have had no share in the growth of this work. It has been done largely by men who believe fundamentally in the might of spiritual forces and in the bigness of small things. To some students it may seem almost petty to go to a settlement house once a week and there meet with a group of boys whose appreciation may be expressed in "razzing" and "rough-housing". A graduate who had some such job when in college told me recently that every year he has received appreciative letters from all the members of his group...