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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Resolved: That after the present war the United States should so far depart from her traditional policy as to participate in the organization of leagues of Powers to enforce peace...
...possible that the lessons obvious- ly enforced by our own history, end, above all, by the recent lamentable breakdown of the European system of military preparedness and armed alliances, should be so completely lost sight of, as is suggested by this proposal to overturn American ideals--to depart from the traditional American policy, as President Nicholas Murray Butler has said, "in the face of the most impressive and emphatic lesson that history records that the traditional American policy has been right"? The advocates of this program of military defence seem wholly to overlook the fact that our national security...
Resolved, That, assuming that a league of powers to enforce peace comes into existence after the present war, the United States should so far depart from its traditional policies as to participate in that league...
...production of the four one-act plays that compose its bill this spring, the Dramatic Club will depart from what has hitherto been the policy of the club in regard to professional coaching of its plays, and the entire production will be in the hands of undergraduates. The coaching will be done by a committee headed by J. W. D. Seymour '17 and N. B. Clarke '16, both of whom have had a wide experience in amateur theatricals both in Cambridge and Boston. As usual the scene designing, lighting and costuming will be carried out entirely by the members...
...Jane Cowl, both admirably fitted for the parts for which they are cast,-as Judge Samuel Filson and Eilen Neat. "Common Clay" is the greater drama if the comments of the New York press may lead to any conclusions. The New York Advertiser says the play "dares to depart from conventionality and attains a swiftness and surety of movement and a logic of events by its own methods. There are no lagging moments. Its people are alive"; and the Morning World: "it lends itself to tense situations, it is direct and culminative in interest, and it has the cardinal melodramatic...