Word: attempts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First, the Council will attempt to discover and to state the spiritual values of non-Christian systems of religion; it will review Confucianism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Islamism from a sympathetic point of view. Then it will try to reach a more profound understanding of interdependence between the younger Churches, especially in Asia, and the older Churches. Another topic to be considered is the impact of industrialism upon Asia and Africa. These are questions which have often been discussed before, though perhaps never by a group so well equipped to arrive at satisfactory answers. This is a council of commanders...
...students. The Yale Aeronautical Society protested, fearful that the prohibition might extend to all students, as at Princeton. Started on a Junkers monoplane flight from Berlin westward to New York last week, Captain Hermann Koehl, Baron von Huenefeld and Mechanic Arthur Spindler reached Dublin, Ireland, whence they were to attempt a longer lurch...
Malarial fever has been used for many years in the U. S. and Europe in an attempt to cure general paresis. Many of the paretics inoculated with malaria have improved, but since there are occasional spontaneous but temporary improvements in this disease, it is still a little early to tell just what part the malaria has played. The outlook seems most favorable however...
...European situation, Russia and Italy, is being considered by a committee in charge of C. J. White 3L. A. B. Hawes '28 will be in charge of the committee which will undertake to formulate a policy in the Pan-American tangle, with reference to the Monroe Doctrine. He will attempt to decide whether intervention without the consent of the other nations is advisable...
...latest attempt to outlaw war put forward by Secretary Kellogg, the affair seems to have reached an impasse yet once again. France has joined with the United States with apparently reasonable conditions, though Britain. Germany, Italy, and Japan have still to be won over. But even the conditions, logical as they seem, are objected to by the United States. France now puts the whole onus of the affair on America. She stands by, with her safeguarding reservations, and watches until the other powers are brought into line...