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...country's delegation from the Assembly to the "stampede" of Senator Borah's prediction is a long step. Moreover the significance of the action means much less when we remember that this is the League's first meeting. That everything should go smoothly among so many peoples of the wide world, that the machinery of the League should move without the slightest friction at its first trial was not to be expected. It was a wise step that Commission One took in deciding against discussion of amendments in this session; the League is young and inexperienced, and intelligent amendments...
...accommodated at athletic games or other events which require the use of the rink or track, and eighty-five hundred can attend political meetings or boxing matches. The running track of standard width measures ten laps to the mile; the rink is 220 feet long and 90 feet wide...
...important part in pioneering legislation of an experimental character. The Australian Ballot, Women Suffrage, The Torrens System of Land Transfer and a whole volume of laws dealing with industrial relations have been the fruit of our government of the Island Continent. This legislation has been copied far and wide. We could not continue this work if we were overwhelmed by a colored horde from Asia...
...mere half of them are ture, B. C. will need all the available strength it can round up. In the next two weeks Georgetown and Holy Cross come to Boston to contest for the Catholic College title; it remains to be seen whether Boston will crack wide open as it did last year against West Point...
...traditions, in the case of an institution of learning, are great assets. A great and loyal body of alumni scattered throughout the length and breadth of the land helps to explain the wide scope of Harvard's appeal. At any rate a freshman class recruited from 43 states ought to prove a pretty fair melting-pot of broad Americanism. --Boston Herald...