Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...luncheon today at 1 o'clock at the Students' Liberal Club, Mr. H. B. Hulbert, former envoy of the Korean emperor to the United States, will speak on "The Japanese Dilemma". Mr. Hulbert is an author and lecturer of note, and an authority on far eastern questions. The luncheon will be for members of the Club only...
This is the theoretical dilemma which may become real at any time--how are the League and the Monroe Doctrine to be reconciled? Many statesmen feel that the League without the United States is doomed to almost certain failure so it may be fairly said that the existence of the League threatens to kill the Monroe Doctrine. This is a situation which the admirers of our "splendid isolation" and the champions of the "American for Americans" idea did not foresee. Nonetheless, it exists. To declare the League jurisdiction inoperative in the Western hemisphere is to deprive its American members...
...There is, for example, almost no subject, outside of the Irish question, more likely to arouse latent passion that educational theory. Does our author vociferate that the moderns are right and that the older method of hammering knowledge into resistant minds is the only true one? "The Teacher's Dilemma" never raised its tone above politeness, and yet it is of more value than much arguing. The same genial spiral marks the discussion of such other matters as efficiency, genius, reconstruction, bolshevism, and what not. All this is both to say that we have here a volume of essays...
...Greek plays in the Stadium in 1915, "Iphigenia in Tauris" and the "Trojan Women." In addition to his extensive work in England he has sponsored many productions in New York. Two of his best known successes were "The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife" and "The Doctor's Dilemma...