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...approval at the formation of a club in the University bearing the ex-President's name, which he believed, it seems, was in anticipation of the verdict of history. He then proceeded to trace through the ages the various attempts and agitations that have been made for some sort of an association or league of nations. These efforts began to reach their culmination when Mr. Taft's League to Enforce Peace met in Philadelphia before the end of the war, and gave to the world its idea of what principles such a league ought to embody...
...Yellow Springs, Ohio, there are on foot preparations for an experiment that will prove of great interest to all educators -- namely the transformation of the little-known college of Antioch into a sort of super trade-school or college of practical business. Mr. Arthur IC. Morgan, who has devised the scheme, intends to transport a number of manufacturing concerns shops and business houses to the college, making them part of the regular equipment. The entire conduct of the place is to be in the hands of the students, who will work in shifts and will divide their time between these...
...written about so often that any further description could not add anything of value. The picture itself brought home a most poignant realization of the indomitable courage and gallantry with which France upheld our common cause, and of the awful sacrifices that she made in the struggle of our sort of civilization against one quite alien to our ideals...
During the winter about 300 men have been engaged in this sort of work, under the supervision of Phillips Brooks House, and the dinner is primarily to bring these men together. All other men in the University who are interested, are invited to attend, however, and it is hoped that all men who intend to take up settlement work in the future will come...
...formulation of a tax adequate to the needs of the government and at the same time adapted to American society and industry is no easy task. It might be found possible to increase the normal tax rate and arrange some sort of adjustment between the assessments made on the corporation and on the privately-owned enterprise respectively. In any case, Congress will do well to utilize to the utmost the experience of taxation experts...