Word: handed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fitting of fangs to the Kellogg-Briand renunciation of war treaty-its toothless state having been remarked by many-was formally begun in the Senate by lean little Senator Capper of Kansas. He popped up with a resolution-doubt-less put in his hand by potent peace publicists-a resolution of large international implications. The idea involved was an ancient one-to get the nations to agree to lay a munitions embargo upon nations daring to violate the treaty...
...adverse criticism which has come to hand so far has been too evidently based upon a superficial interpretation or a second hand acquaintance with the substance of the present Lampoon. In so far as this comment has ignored the serious issues below the surface, it is preposterous...
...special lesson will give the fundamentals of steering, including how to bring a shell to a float without shelling the float, how to take four crews abreast around the sinuous curves of the Charles River, and how to achieve the crowning glory of taking a shell through the right hand arch of the Larz Anderson Bridge, on the way upstream, without running it on shore...
Although only $700,000 has to date been collected, the building will be constructed to the extent of the funds at hand. In the meantime efforts will be made to procure the remaining $300,000. It may be necessary to stop construction temporarily, but the major portion will be completed in the near future...
...attack, it is by no means the only, nor the most essential one. Far more vital to the future educational efficiency of Harvard is the course its teaching policies are to follow. The Lampoon has found in present conditions of instruction material for a twofold protest. On the one hand it expresses strong disapproval of the type of training demanded by such examinations as that given at mid-years in English 32, and on the other it decries the great intercollegiate race for academic prestige which sets a premium on scholarly production and dismisses with a contemptuous gesture the difficult...