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Portents. In diplomatic circles the belief was current that the Odessa conference was concerned with arriving at an understanding whereby Turkey will be able to apply for membership in the League of Nations without violating certain treaty obligations by which she is bound to Soviet Russia. The wild guesses and speculations current in the Occidental press caused loud reverberations of scorn in the Levantine and Japanese press. Levantine editors remarked that the violent "Westernizing" campaign being carried on in Turkey by Kemal Pasha precludes his ever being regarded by Orientals with anything but suspicion. At Tokyo, the Board of Directors...
...PresumabIy the reference is to the agreement of 1901 whereby Cuba was granted independence by the U. S. on condition that she shall never: 1) Conclude a treaty with a foreign power endangering her independence; 2) Contract debts which her current revenues would not suffice to pay; 3) Debar the U. S. from "the right of intervention...
That very fine study of the late President Eliot which appears in the current number of Harper's inadvertently demonstrates once again the very great influence which personality has upon the undergraduate. Alumni out 20 or 30 years repeatedly approached President Eliot in his old age with the remark that the most lasting memory that they carried away from Harvard was the sight of the President walking to his office every morning...
Professor William Duane '93. Research Fellow in Physics, a noted Roentgen ray expert, is at present attempting to determine the structure of the atom by means of X-ray spectra. A current of tremendous voliage is projected into a Roentgen tube arranged in such a way that the X-ray generated will be passed through a diamond prism. The resulting spectrum is caught on a photographic plate...
...American eleven after all is only an expression of opinion, and opinions differ. The Sun is an enterprising newspaper, but its selections represent only itself. The tendency to write up individuals and play down the team has gone far enough. We need to start current in the other direction. The "star system" of the stage ought not to be transported to the stadium...