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...statesmen, and caused him to be generally intolerant of the legal point of view which Mr. Lansing represented by training and inheritance. This ignorance and disregard of the President's for the juristic side of the negotiations took a curious twist in his notion that a preliminary treaty or modus viviendi containing a skeleton of the League of Nations would not have to be ratified by the Senate...
...closing, M. Tardieu took up the famous Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria and Italy, and the various views with regard to its present efficacy. He characterized it as affording a mere modus vivendi between Italy and Austria, and as having ceased to serve Germany as an instrument for dominating European affairs...
...organization along class lines, that as a result of the great growth of the University, the introduction of the elective system, and other causes, it has long since been outgrown, and therefore to abandon all efforts to revivify it, and aim instead at securing some new and more practical modus vivendi to take its place." The argument of which this sentence is the conclusion shows rather more of the effects of preconceived idea than of a fair review of the facts as they actually exist, and it is to be regretted that so dark a view of the state...
...resignations of C. Brewer '96, the newly-elected captain of the Harvard football team for next year, and E. H. Fennessy '96, the captain of this spring's crew, have naturally created surprise and wonder among Yale alumni and undergraduates. It is hard to get a solution of the modus operandi, now popular at Harvard, although several prominent Yale athletes have been interviewed on the subject, among them Walter Camp '80, as well as different members of the football team and some of the candidates for the crew...
...Harvard, 1820-1824" is a pleasant reminiscent sketch of life at Harvard College seventy years ago. Mr. Artemas Bowers Muzzey, himself a '24 man, tells of the old professors - their peculiarities and methods. And the picture which he draws for us of the modus vivendi of 1820-24, so opposite in many things to that of the present day, is charmingly vivid...