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...known. He had not applauded the plan for a new World Court proposed by Senator Lodge without consulting him (TIME, May 19). It was generally conceded that the Lodge Court was ready for its political obsequies, if it had not been stillborn. What was needed was a new scion, begotten or adopted with the President's assent, one in whom the party could unite its fondest hopes, one to whom it could Point with Pride in the next campaign...
...husband is a playwright, the wife an actress, and so far their marrriage has begotten only temperament. O'Neill shows them snarling and yapping, making quarrels their chief recreation. They bicker about nothing, repetitiously, inconclusively, murderously, amorously. For they actually wrangle because they love each other too much to leave each other alone...
...surfeited with lectures in Cambridge that a habit of indifference is begotten towards them, and pearls get cast before overfed creatures who take no notice of their preciousness. Some of the free lectures and courses given here should properly be reckoned by students among the privileges of a lifetime--but they are not. There ought, for example, to be two or three hundred more students at M. Rene Millet's lectures than appear there. The title of the course, and the analysis of its sub-divisions, sound, it is true, a little learned, and may have given the impression that...
...possible for their nine to play with the strongest teams which can be found, When the time comes for the college matches, her men, although they may be no better men than ours, have a degree of confidence in themselves, a determination not to be disconcerted whatever happens, begotten by many hard games, which serve them most advantageously when they are in a tight place. With the stringent policy of our faculty concerning base-ball it would seem to be impossible for our nine to get practice of the kind which can only be obtained by matches with strong clubs...