Word: calm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Carnegle today. The Harvard University and Freshman eights went out separately at noon, rowed down to the dam and then paddled over the course at a stroke of 26. The two crews rowed again this afternoon, going as far as the dam and practicing short racing starts. Water very calm and weather...
Fortunately before the calm of peace has cooled the iron, another important step in this direction has been taken, in this case by law. In The Hague, the center of neutrality, an academy for the study of international law is to be founded. To it every country may send qualified students, including diplomatic representatives, to hear world-famous jurists and "search together the sea of international law." The academy does not purpose to nourish its members on long lists of past cases and decisions. Neither is its purpose to hand down decisions on future disputes, as the ancient University...
From the ranks of the despairing politicians Senator La Follette has stepped forth, calm and prepared to meet the impending catastrophe. If President Harding insists on forcing such unpalatable food upon the people, the Senator will be their doctor. He has already prescribed the antidote--one strong La Follette speech after every Harding meal. And to make sure that the remedy reaches all, he will follow in the President's wake,--or at a distance sufficient to smother any whispers that his itinerary was planned with malice aforethought...
Approprintely, while "Heresy" is in the air, and the religious calm of the University is ruffled, Dr. Gray comes for a series of discussions at Phillips Brooks House. He puts his finger on exactly the phase of religion which can appeal to the inherently practical collegian. "What's the good of religion" is one of his subjects. "The Secret of Power" is another which should certainly attract the most indifferent...
Such a rational attitude is particularly needed just now. Other circumstances contributed much to the failure of socialism in Russia: extravagant threats of the system produced the Facisti; and violence caused socialists to be suppressed in the United States. Through calm consideration in the British Parliament socialism for the first time has an even chance to vindicate itself as a practical theory of economics...