Word: branching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...continued. There is no true education where religion is left out: You will not be forced to go to chapel or church here but you will be given the opportunity to near very great men. Religious education, however, may be obtained not only in church but in every branch of the college education...
...editorial department, will commence next Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock in the Crimson building. At that time the President will talk briefly with all prospective candidates then assembled. Later the department heads will explain in detail to their respective candidates the work in their particular branch of the organization...
International Law is defined as that branch of positive law which governs the inter-relations of states and is clearly distinguished from that branch of positive law which governs the internal affairs of a foreign state and which is commonly called "Municipal Law." International Law is divided into Public International Law and Private International Law, which is usually referred to by the name "Conflict of Laws." The weakness of International Law lies in its provisions for enforcing the observance of its principles. Conferences such as the one now being held are generally recognized by jurists as useful in formulating...
...Responsibility for Corruption. "The revelation of these crimes was not the result of any action taken by the Executive. . . . When discovery was threatened, instead of aid and assistance from the Executive Branch there were hurried efforts to suppress testimony, to discourage witnesses, to spy upon investigators and finally, by trumped-up indictment, to frighten and deter them from the pursuit. . . . With what patience shall we greet the libelous suggestion that, after all, these are but incidents provoked by the demoralization attendant upon the Great War? . . . Shall we forget that no taint of dishonesty or corruption has ever attached...
...Significance. The book is a faery epic, astonishingly perfect. Its creatures will be recognized by Arthur Rackham and others who have traced the fairy folk. Its uncertain twilights are those that Yeats and Fiona Macleod and James Stephens have peered through. James Branch Cabell, who well knows the uses of buttered willow withes, will understand its magic. It must have been written "at an hour when hawkmoths first pass from bell to bell." Its meaning and its melody are "like the notes of a band of violins, all played by masters chosen from many ages, hidden on Midsummer...