Word: failings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...responsibility for their own affairs. The classes in the different colleges elect their own officers, and students take a greater interest in their educational and social affairs. The organization in the old form of colleges makes for greater unity because a smaller body is concerned. Democratic practices often fail if they are applied on too large a scale. Students here will find it to their own advantage to organize on college lines and carry out University projects through the co-ordination and action of their college governments. The change could be affected by action of the student council...
...majority was recorded, with two-thirds of the votes in. Minister of Justice T. O. Kivimaki said: "Reason has conquered." Then he began to draft a Government bill for State Liquor Control. The electorate had understood from the first that such a bill would be drawn up should Prohibition fail to win. Technically, however, votes were cast...
...remains to be seen whether the League of Nations, acting upon the petition of the various professors, can prevail on Mussolini to withdraw the oath. Fortunately, unlike the dictators of past ages, he cannot be wholly indifferent of foreign opinion. Expediency may persuade him if other arguments fail. The Spanish Revolution indicates that the hostility of universities is no negligible factor in the fortunes of absolutism. But in any case, the petition of the Harvard professors, together with the protests of various European scholars, are admirable instances of the internationalism of genuine scholarship. Whether successful or not, such a gesture...
...poor man can feel as did the poor man who willed his soul to "his mooste blessed moder, Saint Mary Virgyn, Quene of Heven Lady of the Worlde and Emporesse of Helle." The great man, too, can cry, with the great Vincent de Beauvais: "O Lady, Lady, if thou fail thy servants, who will succor them...
Last week his goal was still in sight. The emergency decree with its Price Commissioner, its arbitrary fixing of interest rates, rents, even doctors' fees, meant that the Brüning Dictatorship was trying to out-Hitler Hitler. Germany was operating under a system of state capitalism. The experiment might fail any instant. Adolf Hitler sat in Berlin and waited...