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...unearthed, and were evidently built much earlier than most of the other edifices. They were constructed largely of wood; the entrances were narrow and the stairways and passages so obstructed that there must have been a constant firemenace. In fact, one of the ruins we discovered was only a heap of charred stones, indicating destruction not merely by the ravages of time but by fire...
...will leave in the University history periods of which we may be proud as they. The argument, however, stands. Since the universities derive no benefit from such educational peregrinations and the students themselves lose all the true significance of college life, the practice should be relegated to the scrap heap of discarded educational experiments. Yale News...
...Open covenants, openly arrived at" is an obsolete phrase in present European politics. The first meeting of the League of Nations, from which so many good tidings were to be spread around the world, has relegated that principle to the junk-heap of "new world idealism." The Council of the League, now under the control of the old school diplomats, is to conduct its meetings in secret, and withholds its minutes from the contaminating gaze of the public eye. One member only--Lord Robert Cecil--has protested, but to no avail...
...occupying the threatened district, France has shown her ability to put a stop to German pretensions. Some such action was inevitable, if the Treaty was to be saved from the international scrap-heap. It is a pity, though, that France, already so heavily burdened, should be compelled to take up the task alone. It is doubtful whether this occupation would ever have been necessary, if from the beginning the Allied powers had been more sensible in making their demands, or more firmly united in backing them up. As it is, France has undertaken a responsibility which rests properly upon...
...strike. So is labor; a strike is as hard on the worker as it is on anybody else. But a Labor Administration would be beer and skittles for everyone except capital and the public. It is not hard to see who would be on the top of the heap with such a regime...