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...appropriate that a Republican National Convention should assemble in Ohio . . . Not far away are the resting places of Garfield, McKinley, Hayes and Harding. . ." He then proceeded for some three-quarters of an hour to review the history of the Republican Administration, and he added...
...Harry A. Garfield, President of Williams College and Chairman of the Institute of Politics (TIME, May 5), stated that no such course would be complete unless it included travel abroad and first-hand touch with other nations...
...what connection with the Government had the man who first used the word 'crank' in its psychological sense??His name was Charles J. Guiteau and he used the word in describing himself after he had assassinated President Garfield...
Imitation is generally considered to foe flattering. In 1921 Dr. Harry A. Garfield, head of Williams College, son of the assassinated President, called the first session of the Williamstown Institute of Politics. This unique annual event has attracted attention for ihe quality of the foreign lecturers who addressed it, the prominence of the experts who conducted its special Round Table conferences, the timeliness of the subjects discussed. Its first session was dignified by the venerable figure of the late Lord Bryce, and it has been rumored that the preliminaries to the Washington Arms Conference of 1921 were conducted...
...Williamstown Institute has not yet announced its complete schedule. Standing ambitiously in the midst of current politics, it was inevitable that it should be made the vehicle for much propaganda, beyond the power of Dr. Garfield to control. Despite the high prestige of some of its speakers, such as Lord Bryce, Tommaso Tittoni and Lord Birkenhead, it has not been immune from such unabashed propagandists as Count Harry Kessler (German). Further, the Institute has been very much under the influence of League of Nations proselytizers in this country. The report is discouraging that the British representatives this year are again...