Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conference is to deal with land armaments, beginning with Russia's proposition for an unarmed world, descending toward practicability. In reduction of land forces the U.S. has no interest, leaving that question to Europe. Still it could not go to a disarmament conference without a disarmament program, no matter how negative, so one was prepared last week...
This year over 200 cases have been handled, ranging through a variety of types. One time it was a matter of a student's check being raised by a New York speakeasy; again it was a tenant fighting with his landlord over ill-heated rooms; and still a third time, it was a question of a $5,000 suit which was finally settled, under the Bureau's management...
Under present arrangements, Freshmen are to receive advice on concentration, not only from their particular Faculty adviser but also from other faculty members, representing the various divisions, to whom they may go for any information desired. In addition to this, the matter will be outlined in a general way by President Lowell, R.M. Eaton '17, and Delmar Leighton '19, speaking before the Freshmen next Thursday...
...most recent Italian elections, heralded as a great victory for Mussolini and the groups which support him are as a matter of fact rather difficult to interpret. Not only are no satisfactory data available with reference to the nominating process of those 'elected', but even less do we know about the circumstances of the election itself. True, the Times correspondent emphasized that there was no violence at the election; but it would be somewhat naive, to say the least, to assume that therefore the election was a fair one. Whether the ballots were exactly alike, and not distinguished from each...
...mother and the daughter, and must be sheltering both from the family disgrace that would follow upon the revelation of the truth. But, regardless of the loss to his own reputation for discernment, has Mr. Sedgwick the right to maintain this attitude of chivalrous protection in a historic matter of such profound national interest