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...East is very delicate. Since Japan began its offensive in Manchuria, the American policy has been motivated by determination to support the various treaties of peace, like the Kellogg Pact, to defend American interests; to avoid war. It has not always been easy to hold fast to this three-fold purpose, but all three angles were important. Not one must be forgotten. Mr. Roosevelt has expressed approval of what has been done so far. It will be very wise to continue this policy because it is based on respect for treaties, is a policy of peace and has the understanding...
Cutting, down the lectures in a course where their ascendancy should, I think, be paramount, places an added premium on this discussion; work, and thereby increase the above, evils two-fold. The new-system diminishes some of the great possibilities of the lecture system: for example the mature view of a competent lecturer on relevant topics suggested by the reading...
...generally the hall mark of a live institution that criticism comes from within. Such certainly is the case in the Harvard Division of Fine Arts. Here, criticism occurs because both the professors, collectively, even if not individually, and their critics misunderstand the two-fold nature of a study of the Fine Arts...
Bray Hammond, writing in the New Republic, expresses some of this righteous indiguation. Though a little radical, at least his indictments against American banking appear sound. His criticism is two-fold. In the first place, he contends that there are too many banks. Where one strong institution might adequately serve a whole region, there are five weak banks struggling for existence. When crises come, some of these are bound to go under. In the second place Mr. Hammond points to the hopeless chaos in which the dual system of control, state and national, has resulted. Two different sets of rules...
...went to the Republican national convention at Chicago, clashed violently with the Old Guard that renominated Taft, bolted with Theodore Roosevelt whom he had never met. He accepted the Bull Moose vice-presidential nomination. In 1916, still Governor, he was back in the Republican fold when Charles Evans Hughes visited California under Old Guard auspices. They failed to meet, though for some time they were under the same hotel roof. Johnsonites were insulted. Hughes lost the State and the Presidency while Johnson was elected to the Senate where he has served continuously since 1917. In 1920 he missed a White...