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...three, the committee voted that the Prohibition Party would continue. Its Nominee was still its Nominee and for him all good Prohibitionists would work, hope, vote. One of Nominee Varney's managers quickly announced: "The position of the majority was that this election is not a bona fide contest over the prohibition question, but a fake contest between the modification program of Governor Smith, on one side, and continued nullification by the Republican Party, on the other side...
These youthful delegates have something of an advantage over the League itself. At Genoa the babel of languages must be transferred to one tongue; at Amherst, though many representatives will be bona fide Europeans or Asiatics, no reading knowledge of foreign languages is required--provided the pleasant possibilities of education have been realized. And therein lies an analogy, or at worst a similarity. If education makes it possible for these foreign students to speak comprehensible English, it has one point in favor of its finally producing the mutual understanding among peoples, so long desired, so slow to come. Not that...
Second of the bona fide sciences to yield under pressure of the spreading tutorial system is the Geology Department. The creation two years ago of the Department of Bio-chemical Sciences, removing as it did the grievous errors in pre-medical education, was yet only a slight breach in what seemed an impregnable wall. Then came, in April of last year, the announcement that the Department of Biology would begin the following academic year under the tutorial system. The decision announced today gives an appearance of progression to these events, a progression that can be concluded only with the adoption...
...Rome, so that he might see the cornerstone of the college laid (TIME, Mar. 5); last week, the Cardinal was expected soon to arrive at the Vatican, but the cornerstone laying would, it seemed, be delayed by the illness of Willem Cardinal van Rossum, present head of the Propaganda Fide. This was unfortunate, because Cardinal Mundelein had contemplated an almost immediate return...
Lowden chose, in preference to directing the affairs of the Navy, to retire to his farm. It was a bona fide farm. He had not bought it in the first swift decline of farm prosperity with a shrewd eye to the political advantages which might accrue from being identified with a lively issue. He had bought his farm twenty-one years before this time--in 1899 and some years before his interest had ever turned to politics. Gradually the farm had grown until in 1920 it comprised more than a thousand acres. The job of reorganizing it and making...