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...Green went out to California "to get the big bootlegger ... to smash liquor at its source." Last week he was indicted on a charge of embezzlement of Federal property. His felony was the use of confiscated liquor to entertain himself and his friends...
Whatever the cause of assemblage, it is always to Harvard's advantage to entertain guests. They must perforce contrast what they see here and with what they find at home and elsewhere. The necessary insufficiency of the judgments made, does not render them useless. First impressions will do very well to stimulate thought. And it is rather to be regretted that the customary restraints of courtesy de rive Harvard men of the entirely frank opinion of those who have suggestive comparisons to make. For Harvard hardly pretends to represent perfection in any field; and her guests are usually, in some...
...progress, there is change, there is dynamic and creative thought there is new hope. In this wholly forward direction the minds and souls of other men will always turn. Is there a contest between the two ideas? Very likely; but why should there be conflict between those who entertain them, since both sides admit the principle? There is no sound reason for such conflict. The thought of our time, let it lead in one direction or the other, is sincere. It seeks the truth. It desires, as men never desired more resolutely, to solve the problems of the soul. Since...
...Washington. The Yale secretary prepared an announcement, because His Royal Highness, Gustaf Adolf, Crown Prince of Sweden and Duke of Skane, is this month coming to the U. S. to attend the unveiling of a monument to Viking Leif Ericsson* at the Capital. Minister Bliss must help President Coolidge entertain. Yale, which has not had a special convocation since Marshal Foch visited it in 1921, † is going to confer upon the Prince, "archeologist, musician, athlete and religious leader," an honorary LL.D...
Groups are also being formed in Yale, Princeton, Cornell and other colleges and Universities throughout the country. The total number of students which the International Confederation will be able to entertain is limited to 400 and Harvard's quota cannot exceed...