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...center on the Havana Conference in the hope that future relations may be put on a substantial basis that will leave no room for conscientious doubts. President Machado's determination to rigorously exclude the Nicaraguan problem from the program, and President Coolidge's refusal to be concrete, do not augur well for such a conclusion. Certain Latin delegates, however, have expressed themselves vehemently on the subject in published interviews. It can be hoped that the frankness with which they state their desires, and the willingness of the United States to admit the rights of free states even while she protects...
...imminent Reading Periods is that the Faculty has "confidence in the ability of the student and in his desire to use the opportunities well." This, with the general undergraduate attitude eagerness to test the experiment and at least an open mind toward its possible results--is an encouraging augur for what must be admitted is an unknown field. Whatever be the outcome of the Period it will have been based on a mutual understanding of both Faculty and students. Each realizes that there are dangers to be faced and each is demonstrating a desire to avoid those dangers...
...Vice Consul Robert W. Imbrie. That incident so fired U. S. wrath that the Persian Government dared not further inflame U. S. opinion by the discharge of Dr. Millspaugh. Recently the Doctor's dismissal has again been rumored; but the extension of his contract last week, seemed to augur that Persians are beginning to value at true weight his ponderous and growing achievement...
...handicaps it was working under with inadequate buildings and endowment, it quoted a most Lincolnian remark addressed to it by its good friend, Publisher Adolph S. Ochs of the New York Times. Mr. Ochs had said: "You are boring with a gimlet when you should be using an augur...
...William Z. Foster had their adherents by the thousand. But the post-war period has thrown these ideals into the discard, and students now have turned to other fields of thought. If the students of today are the leaders of tomorrow, as so often is alleged, then these facts augur poorly for the country's future leadership...