Word: commenter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some time ago the Princetonian had occasion to comment on the existing system of probation in force in the University. Since that time we have been even more strongly impressed with the absurdity and childishness of this attempt to punish a man for failure to satisfy the University requirements. The inevitable conclusion is that the probation rule for all undergraduates except Freshmen must be done away with...
Without provoking much dispute as to substance, Premier Mussolini's recent comment on Machiavelli's "Prince" invites generalization on the differences in the political and social outlook of the Anglo-Saxon and of the Latin. Mussolini's ideas may be looked upon as fairly typical of the latter Lincoln has been pointed out as one of the best interpreters of the former. And the vast gulf between the conclusions of such men can signify nothing other than a complete difference in methods and equipment...
...first of next month, the recently signed immigration bill, on certain features of which there has been so much critical comment, will go into effect. It will have the result of reducing the flood of immigrants entering the United States from three per cent of the total foreign born population in the country in 1910 to two per cent of that population in 1890, virtually eliminating all immigration from the nations of Southern and Eastern Europe, whose representatives have shown themselves to be least susceptible to rapid and complete assimilation...
...editorial writer goes on to comment as follows...
...always gratifying to read in the columns of a university paper a comment on an international question such as your latest on the Japanese exclusion act (Editorial on June 3), for there is the possibility of remolding minds which have as a goal the present mental attainments of some of our senators and representatives who think they are glorifying their country by jeopardizing the friendly relations with a foreign country merely to make a display to the people back home of one of their 100 per cent 'isms. If the student of today is made to think internationally, the leader...