Word: modelings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only welcome that the news of a new organization to be called the Harvard Forum can expect from the undergraduate body is a skillfully biting reference to the Liberal Club, the Inquiry, the Model League of Nations and the numerous other groups which purport to furnish a similar opportunity...
...Club offers any undergraduate the chance to air his views; the Debating Council, although the subjects may be chosen by the group, is attempting to institute a certain amount of Parliamentary procedure; The Inquiry started from the premise that Harvard undergraduates wanted to Indulge in harmless forensics; and the Model League of Nations gives student representatives all the opportunity they desire in the way of involved regulations...
...organization is doubtful in the extreme. Attendance at the Liberal Club meetings does not bode well for attendance at the Forum. Interest in the Debating Council, until the recent Hitler trial was such that one can only greet the Forum with raised eyebrows. The dances of the Model League were better patronized than were the meetings in parliamentary procedure...
...theory long since discarded by political thinkers, he postulated a theory of social contract, historically null and logically full of gaping flaws, but yet inspiring in its fervent trust and faith in the basic goodness of all mankind. A visionary and idealist he was without a forerunner or a model. Above all he was a describer of beauty--a describer of the passions of the human heart and of the beauties of nature...
...Emperor Franz Josef, the murdered Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the murdered Alexander Obrenovitch of Serbia. In the elaborate neo-Byzantine Kara-Georgevitch family tomb on the hill of Oplenatz murdered Alexander of Jugoslavia, in his Austrian sarcophagus, will soon lie. From their catalog, Julius Maschner & Son chose the same model coffin as those they recently completed for former Chancellors Dollfuss and Seipel of Austria. All they had to do was remove the Roman crucifix from the lid and replace it with a Serbian Orthodox cross, applique the Jugoslav royal arms and a silver name plate. There were also...