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...days, the reason being that neither the delegate from Spain nor the delegate from Brazil was present. One was "ill, the other had pressing business." The real reason was that Spain and Brazil both demand to be made permanent members of the Council, and the other nations demur. If the strain grows too acute one or both of them may even withdraw from the League-at least that was the talk in Rio de Janiero...
Fortunately there seems to be no such danger. The most these molders of college opinion ask is that the football team be reduced to "the present status of the crew," meaning "good training and a correct balance of importance and pleasure." As to the "pleasure," the crew man might demur; but he will be one with undergraduate and old grad in the matter of "importance." --New York Times
...according to the Russian delegation, which has caused no end of trouble at Genoa. The Communist, who never admitted the right of private property in the first place, cannot understand how anyone can find anything extreme or unreasonable in "expropriation". When the other members of the family of nations demur, and refuse to allow their citizens in Russia to suffer by this piece of Bolshevik logic, M. Kakowsky and his colleagues assume the attitude of injured innocence...
...Columbus avenue. Every youth in that sturdy array had given up home comforts, school and business advantages, personal delights with friends and loved ones--had turned from all these to the rigors of camp and training stations--had subordinated himself to enders that must be obeyed without demur--had set himself to face terrifle perils overseas and lay down his life if he must--all for that flag! Hamerton was right when he wrote: "The two most powerful mental stimulants--since they overcome the fear of death--are unquestionably religion and patriotism." --Boston Herald...
...also able to write perfect English himself and avoid all the defects and blemishes he has seen in another. No one will deny that our English department, taken as a whole, is conducted with ability - and understanding, yet no one can reasonably wonder if the members of a class demur at writing criticism after criticism, when they have been led to suppose, by the experience of the leading writers, past and present, that criticism is a secondary matter, and that the critical writer is by no means necessarily a respectable descriptive writer of any kind...