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...Preparatory Commission of the League of Nations, and in the specific naval disarmament question confined to Great Britain, Japan, France, Italy and the United States, with the conferences in Geneva in 1927 and in London in 1930. I likewise had the opportunity to work with Secretary Kellogg in the arduous negotiations preceding the conclusion of the Kellogg Pact, and went to Paris shortly before the signature to make the final arrangements for that purpose. In all these experiences I have been particularly struck by the earnestness and intensity with which the responsible heads and representatives of the countries...
Published in the CRIMSON this morning is an arduous schedule of activities planned for Commencement week by the members of the Class of 1906. At least the Alumni can not be accused of being lazy if they meet all the engagements set for them. But they are determined to resurrect all the memories and manners of their undergraduate days in the short span of a week and will carry through their intentions to the bitter dregs...
...general principles, and now and then on each other it is hoped. "The Isis" goes into great detail as to the kind of drinkers that oxist at the University. There are those who drink only on Saturday night, and there are those who indulge only after long and arduous physical discipline. This last category the magazine admits quite frankly are "horrid...
After swift tours of inspection to the French and British front, General Pershing settled down to the arduous preliminaries of creating a U. S. fighting force which he was confident would deliver the "decisive blow" to Germany in 1919. Question No. 1! where would the A. E. F. take its place in the line? Selected, after long conferences, was a sector east of Verdun in Lorraine. Question No. 2: how would this sector, eventually to hold 1,000,000 men, be supplied from the rear? In answer General Pershing began to map out a Service of Supply which stretched from...
...ingenuity in military tactics, but also an able administrator who knew well how to direct the fruits of his conquest along lines of permanence by fostering settlement and agriculture. The figure of Dona Marina, the beautiful Indian interpretress who shared all the toils of his arduous campaigns, gives an added note of romance. Yet notwithstanding the epic quality of Mr. Robinson's recent biography, Prescott's "Conquest of Mexico" is still the most dramatic and astounding account of the exploits of Hernando Cortez...