Word: evens
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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First of all, we should differentiate our terms. A "League of Nations" through continued repetition has become so much identified in the public mind with the hope of permanent peace mind with the hope of all war, that many even of the most intelligent men confound the two, and criticism of a League of Nations is denounced as advocacy of war and hostility to peace. Nothing could be more dangerous than this. The whole subject is one of such vast importance and hostility to peace. Nothing could be more dangerous than this. The whole subject is one of such vast...
...draft for a League of Nations which was brought over here by Mr. Wilson on his hurried trip was hastily thrown together and so clumsily phrased that even he cannot interpret clearly what it means. Comparatively few American citizens have read the draft at all, and so far as the American public is concerned, aside from the debates in the Senate and some critical discussion in the press, there has been no attempt to make clear just what effect any one of the twenty-six articles will have either upon the future of the United States or upon the future...
...Medical School, there are now 305 students enrolled in this branch of the University. This is the only graduate School in which the war had a tendency to increase rather than decrease the enrollment. The medical students were not allowed by the government to leave their studies and even those preparing for this course were forced to stay at their regular work, so great was the government's need for skilled medical men. The complete figures by classes follow: First year, 98 Second year, 89 Third year, 100 Fourth year, 16 -- Total...
...College Bestiary" should be a vade mecum for every underclassman. It is an accumulation of wisdom, sorted, labelled, illuminated, and, best of all, tucked away in an idiom that by its vigor and raciness will disarm even those who would like to shoot a preacher at sight. Wherever there is a saving grace of ambition in a student; these "characters" of college types and their glosses will be useful...
...that the cruel undergraduate, though he may ride an instructor to death in the classroom, is human enough not to want the poor fellow's children to die in a garret. The last paragraph is perhaps out of place. "At Oxford," said the immortal master of Balliol, "not even the youngest of us is infallible...