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...ments to be made by Germany without stating how long they are to continue - must soon be definitized by some sort of agreement as to the total sum which Germany is expected to pay. Wrote Mr. Gilbert: "As time goes on and practical experience accumulates, it becomes always clearer that neither the reparations problem nor the other problems depending thereon will be finally solved until Germany has been given a definite task to perform on her own responsibility, without foreign supervision and without the transfer problem." The modest Agent Gilbert envisioned and recommended the proximate abolition of the very bureau...
...becomes gradually clearer that the fact that her attentions are unwelcome will not check the course of social proselytizing upon which Russia has embarked. There is rather every indication that her propaganda plans are expanding. She has learned, without needing Chicago in the office of tutor, that the pen is still the mightier. And her executives have determined that when better propaganda is made, Russia will make...
Harvard, he says briefly, was a subject about which his contemporaries knew nothing, although they had a clear conception of Yale and an even clearer one of the standards for which Princeton stood. Here is the one point in which there seems a great difference between Harvard and Princeton. "Individualism" is one of the catch-words used to express the fact that ten Harvard men of the same class might meet in after life not only previously unacquainted, but with nothing to stamp them alike; and this helps also to explain, perhaps, why all attempts to convey the sense...
...normal U. S. citizen will enjoy this version of it more than any other he has ever seen. The piece is played in the trimmest of modern clothes and plainly marked "Talk -do not recite, intone, pant, blow." It is as clear as a cinema subtitle; clearer. The plot is concentrated in the name; a villainously bad tempered woman is bewildered, wed, cowed by a big beautiful brute. Basil Sidney, who played Hamlet in modern clothes first for Manhattan, acted the tamer ably, though he appeared a trifle over-conscious of his bigness, beauty, brutality. Mary Ellis, the shrew, battled...
...sons, Speaker Nicholas Longworth (Wet) and Senator Frank B. Willis (Dry). *Last week, Dr Henry van Dyke, retired patriarch of Princeton University's department of English, and a twinkle-eyed Democrat, wrote to the New York Times: ". . . But why put it in the negative ? The positive is shorter, clearer and better. 'May I not ?' is less handsome than 'May I ?' 'I do not think' is a weak substitute for 'I think-not.' 'I choose not to be a candidate in nineteen twenty-eight' is a sentence of good English...