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...American Government seeks no special advantage . . . but clearly cannot permit itself to be placed in a position of manifest disadvantage. ... At the Three Power Conference in Geneva in 1927 . . . the limitation proposed by the British delegation on this smaller class of cruisers was so high that the American delegation considered it, in effect, no limitation at all. This same proposal is now presented in a new and even more objectionable form which still limits large cruisers which are suitable to American needs, but frankly places no limitation whatever on cruisers carrying guns of six inches or less in calibre...
...means evidently momentous at the time. The right and wrong of the choice may be clear, but not the seriousness of the consequences involved; because they affect not so much the outward career of the actor as his own personal character, and the result may not be manifest for a long time...
...years after the inception of disease. But, for four years, these girls were unaware of the disease eating its way into their bones. Last month the case was presented before the Court of Chancery* to obtain a ruling on whether the statute applies to a disease which did not manifest itself until years after its inception. The hearing was set for September, but because of the rapid progress of the disease, and the destitute condition of the women, the case is being tried by the Essex County Circuit of the Supreme Court while still pending in chancery. There is little...
While the difficulty of obtaining conclusive figures was manifest, the expression of varied opinions was often both clear and emphatic. A few Seniors felt that the present requirements were on the whole beneficial--that even if a student coming to Harvard had no particular interest in languages the requirement of an elementary knowledge was stimulating and broadening, while the man who passed the reading requirement in a language was generally fitted to use that language in his further college work. Some of the men who held this general opinion advocated the raising of the reading knowledge requirement to a higher...
...definitely to understand that the former are available and willing to discuss the academic problems of the latter. Were the instructor properly compensated for the extra burden thus placed upon him he might in some cases go farther and inquire into the causes and extent of any general deficiencies manifest in the work of his students...