Word: desiree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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I have your card for the renewal of my subscription, and before sending it in I desire to express myself on one point which may seem trifling to you, but which is to me a constant source of irritation ; and that is your English.
"In truth, Harvard has thoroughly domesticated me. Should I ever have the slightest desire to entangle myself in the, ties of matrimony, the terrors of housekeeping will not bother me. I shall order a few rubberneck lamps, a six-by-three Harvard pennant, a Harvard shield, several more or less...
Unfortunately the common assumption that the nations seriously desire an international court for the settlement of their disputes, is not altogether well founded. Nations desire an international tribunal and have had no difficulty in establishing one ad hoc when the occasion arises, when the dispute is unimportant or would not...
Persons having a serious desire to govern their actions by intelligence rather than emotion have a right to ask such questions. Can it be that the political platform which so long dedicated a plank to the conception of an international court contemplated a court to which we would never have...
In spite of our particular care to avoid misunderstanding, we have received occasional communications protesting against our desire to "abolish chapel", or accusing us of being destructive critics without a constructive element. Of course it is compulsion and not chapel that we, and now virtually all of Yale College and...