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...irreconcilables." Since Borah left the reactionaries to advocate a world court of his own, Johnson has been the undisputed leader of the isolationists. Behind him is the group which preferred poison to the League of Nations on any terms. Meanwhile Senator Johnson has sailed for Europe-to get a first-hand knowledge of the entanglements he wants to avoid. It is his first trip across the Atlantic. Those who will be opposed to Harding in 1924 because of the World Court are calling after the gentleman from California: " Bon voyage...
...just a shade more than a governing body. It is a sort of super-Senate, defining the conditions under which government functions. Mr. Warren's is the first adequate history of that unique body. He is a distinguished legal scholar. Most of all, as Assistant District Attorney during the Wilson administration, he had an unexcelled opportunity to see the Supreme Court at work and to gain a practical first-hand knowledge of its functions. He acknowledges, however, that the lack of proper perspective on the last 30 years makes adequate treatment impossible, and has restricted his more minute...
...Germans have complained bitterly about French brutality; about the prohibition of Wilhelm Tell at the theatres; about the expulsions of German officials from the Ruhr; and about the use of black troops. In connection with the last complaint, German contentions are backed up by first-hand unbiased evidence, despite French denials...
...program of speeches by faculty and undergraduates, athletic events, and still other entertainments, the life of the college is presented to the alumnus in vivid and concentrated form. In one day he can restore his memory of "bright college years", discover what changes and developments have occurred, and learn first-hand about the present-day needs of the college...
...Republic denounced the tendency of graduates to exert too much unintelligent influence over an institution's affairs, which they are able to control on account of their financial responsibilities. Such charges are of course ill-considered: if any group of men is fitted, both by character and by first-hand knowledge, to serve a university, it is its alumni, whose ideals have been shaped by it, and who have had personal experience of its needs. But it is true that these ideals are apt to be somewhat dimmed, and the memories of those experiences less distinct, after a few years...