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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clash teaches in that the League of Nations or the World Court must be prepared at all times to make decisions on vexed questions, such as the validity of treaties, or the rights of foreign residents or investors in territory inadequately policed by native authority. If the League can extend its jurisdiction to these sore spots soon enough, if judicial arbitration can be used before smoldering discontent bursts into flame, the League's power to prevent war may become completely effective...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EARLY ARBITRATION | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

...would be unwise to extend this system to the point where a man could cat no meals in his own House. this, indeed, would defeat one of the most important benefits of the House Plan. Also I would consider that on special House Nights, outsiders would have to come in as guests to prevent over taxing the dining hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Inter-House Eating | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

...committee voted to extend the use of the squash courts, except between 4 and 6 o'clock, to former members of the House. Monday, December 21, was the date chosen for the "annual" Christmas entertainment. The entertainment committee, headed by Robert Saltonstall, Jr. '33, has secured the services of Roy Lamson for the tea dance following the Yale game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 11/14/1931 | See Source »

...college professor; 38 U. S. college presidents (among them, oldtime presidents of Vassar, Michigan, Rochester, Centre, Colgate, Cincinnati; and Colby's present President Franklin Winslow Johnson). But noisy railroads and smelly pulp mills have lately encroached upon the old campus. Cramped for space, Colby has been unable to extend its facilities. A survey by a State commission ranked Colby's physical equipment far below that of Bowdoin, Bates and the University of Maine, pointed out that to improve it would require an expenditure equal to that of moving. Also, Maine must accommodate 1,000 more college students than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: At Colby | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

...There is a mysterious liaison which unites the American Army to that of Jugoslavia. This liaison is not a treaty, nor an alliance, nor a declaration, but consists in eternal sentiments of spiritual friendship which extend beyond the bonds of distance. . . . Our desires, our sentiments, our characters are fundamentally the same. In the great moral principles of right to liberty and peace, the armies of Jugoslavia and America will march parallely in full accord, not disturbing one another since in all fundamental things Jugoslavia and America are in full accord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Glass of Wine? | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

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