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...drew an ideal picture of a world with law substituted for brute force, where sanity, reason, and counsel prevail, and where "all nations, big and small, unite into agreements regarding their common welfare on the basis of mutual understanding, conciliation, and cooperation". For the accomplishment of this, the speaker pointed out, the European countries must sink nationalism in internationalism, must demobilize not only their armies but also their jealousies and hatreds, "and tear down all trade restrictions, tariff walls, and passport regulations...
...football the great tendency of rule revision in the past ten years has been to convert the game from a test of brute strength to an athletic contest in which there is some show of skill and in which a lighter team will have a chance. Of course there has been a spirit of conservatism among some of the older, larger, institutions, perhaps because they have the knack of acquiring students of great stature...
Columbia University's graduates today outnumber the entire enrolment of many a great institution of learning. The nearly 2,,500 diplomas conferred today are more than two-thirds of the entire membership of Yale University. Brute number in themselves are obviously not the measure of rank in the higher realms of education. But numbers have their significance as a measure of the extent to which a university ties itself u to the life of the community...
Clara Kimball Young stars in the feature attraction at the Park Theatre this week, in a well-filmed photoplay entitled "Straight From Paris". A co-feature is Frank Mayo's newest picture, "The Magnificent Brute", which offers a subtle bit of melodrama...
What the people really want has little to do with the matter. Mr. Lodge knows the will of the people. Mr. Hitchcock knows the will of the people. "Mirabile Dictu." To each it appears a different thing. For such deadlocks as these unprofitable trials of brute strength our government provides no solution except compromise...