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...economy, for instance?he looks out at you from under extraordinarily heavy eyebrows, and his eyes snap and his brows twitch. He buries superficial crudities under a river of picturesque language, which flows from a mountain of facts. Suddenly, you do think that he's the Governor, and you understand how it is that in the end he 'gets...
...education at far less than cost. For this they should be, and undoubtedly are, deeply grateful. It is also generally recognized that the student body as a whole obeys rules laid down by the authorities of the University. And yet the desirability of one such rule is hard to understand...
Such being the basis for definite progress toward world peace, the news from Geneva during the past two days has aroused the almost forgotten fears of those who were sanguine. It is difficult to understand the Japanese in their opposition to the proposed protocol of arbitration and security. At bottom their contention centers around the immigration question. Japan refuses to bind it self to accept a possible decision by the World Court that immigration is exclusively within another country's domestic jurisidiction. The clause to which she objects would outlaw a disputant country refusing to accept such decision. M. Adachi...
...Forum for October, one George Henry Payne reported a conversation which he had had with a foreigner whom he called "Mr. Gonegaga" : GONEGAGA: "There is Mr. Hearst's morning American. I understand that thoroughly. The international bankers have taken away all the money from the people and yet-and that is what puzzles me-the people seem happy. How is that?" PAYNE: "Very simple. The international bankers have not taken absolutely all the money-they have left the plain people a small amount, but enough to buy Mr. Hearst's three New York papers, his two Chicago papers...
This course, given under the auspices of the Graduate School Society and the Harvard Christian Association, proposes to offer men of the University general information in religion analogous to that given in such courses as Philosophy A and Government 1. It is designed to enable Harvard men to understand the main religious systems and concepts, particularly those involved in the present controversy in the Churches, so that they can intelligently take a position in religion...