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...Fewer than two dozen peeresses will be affected by the bill. The House of Lords ought to reflect more accurately the opinion of the 8,000,000 women voters in the country. On a large number of questions there is a woman's point of view; many men differ from it, but that there is such a point of view is unarguable. Besides, in the House of Commons women have proved an enormous success, and one woman, Miss Margaret Bondfield, occupies a seat on the Treasury 'bench...
...Opinions differ widely as to the extent of the power wielded by Grigori. Some people claim that his is "the greatest force that has ever shown itself in Communist Russia, not excepting Lenin." Others refer to him merely as "Lenin's assistant...
...might also wish to differ with the writer's conclusions upon the mechanics of recording information gathered in college. Any system beyond the barest fundamentals is highly individual; some men retain more of a lecture through scrawling cryptic notes in margins than do others by recording it word for word. The essential information regarding these matters of routine might be given in one short talk...
...other two predictions deserve more serious consideration. Both the Harvard and the Yale man have made sincere efforts to forecast the score of today's meet. That their conclusions differ by some 25 points only shows the degree of their college spirit. Each man is going on the assumption that all the men from his college will do better than their best, and that all the men from the rival college will do worse than their worst. That is an unwarranted assumption. In actual competition this afternoon, it is practically certain that some men from each team will fall short...
...Senate of the U, S. looked upon the immigration bill passed by the House and then proceeded to write and pass its own bill, which differed from the House bill only by as much as Nature herself requires that one pea shall differ from another...