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...most casual perusal of the message: its clarity and straight forwardness, its lack of any very new or striking suggestion, and the difference of its tone in regard to domestic and to foreign policy. In the first two respects the President's message is remarkably in accord with the general public's estimate of the man. President Coolidge has been considered stable, carefully conservative, practical in a business way, in fact a good representative of the Grand Old Party; and his message bears this out. He is following President Harding's policies, as he promised; he is a true Republican...
...younger brother the Bulletin is serious in its criticism and as such deserves a respectful hearing. The CRIMSON, so runs its argument, is in a position of public office. And "public office is a public trust". With this conception of its own position the CRIMSON is in hearty accord. It agrees with the Bulletin that undergraduate editors "have their day and cease to be" and must hand on their trust untarnished and, if possible, brighter than ever. Difference of opinion develops not as to the end but as to the means...
...very easy to understand and to sympathize with the natural objections to these proposals. 'At first sight, the idea of a gymnasium or a dormitory does not seem to accord with the spirit of a memorial. But it is only necessary to think of Harkness at Yale or of the Baker Memorial Rink at Princeton to dispel the prejudice against a "utilitarian" memorial. At its best a new dormitory might be a Harvard Harkness; at its worst it would serve a useful purpose. At i's best a new chapel would be a glorious, if somewhat lifeless, architectural monument...
Other things discussed were: Near East situation; Middle East situation; Egyptian settlement; Washington treaties. It was also agreed to empower the overseas British nations to conclude treaties of their own accord in cases where neither the Home Government or any other British Government is affected...
...life's little ironies" that the twentieth century, so often hailed as the era of internationalism and more perfect accord between nations, should be marked by a recrudescence of high tariffs and protectionism which are the very antithesis of association. The present agitation for protection in England is merely part of a general movement which reached its apex in the Fordney Tariff...