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This situation exposes a fatal defect in the constitution of the League. By forming a council of the Entente powers the Versailles diplomats sought to perpetuate in modified form the six-power system, which had preserved the European balance of power during the nineteenth century. This arrangement has never been very satisfactory, but neither is increasing indefinitely the size of the council a feasible plan. Abolishment of the council altogether is a step which has not been contemplated. Yet such a plan, by placing the members upon an equal footing, would free the Assembly from the dominance...
...current number shows plainly that the alumni have no intention of leaving the subject until everything has been said as many times as possible. Only the one man Harvard Club in Singapore is yet to be heard from; and, since mails from the Orient are notoriously slow, this defect may be remedied at any time...
Sirs: Alice Foote MacDougall [on the LETTERS page of the Nov. 16 issue] expresses what to my mind is a defect in TIME-your style of English, "Came the President," "Sneezed the Senator" and all that sort of thing. It is grotesque, unattractive and as irritating as a sore thumb...
...have been looking at Goethe much as a shying horse looks at a post. In truth, I am afraid of him. . . . There must, as I think, have been some prodigious defect in his mind to let him hold such views as his about women and some other things; and in another respect, I find so much coldness and hollowness as to the highest truths that I feel the Heaven he looks up to is but a vault...
After one reel of Tilden had been shown at last night's Union entertainment, the electricity gave out suddenly, and as the defect could not be located, the entertainment had to be called...