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...Geneva, home town of the League of Nations, met 16 eminent world jurists, representing many judicial systems and institutes, to draw up a provisional list of subjects in International Law which would pro- mote peaceful international understanding. From a legal point of view, the meeting represents the most ambitious attempt known to control international disputes...
...mote-and-beam doctrine had its reiteration in a letter addressed by Tokutomi Kenjiro, famed Japanese littérateur, to U. S. missionaries, on the conclusion of the fourth decade of his Christian life. The Living Age republished from the Japan Weekly Chronicle...
...willing to see the mote in his own eye? What of the American newspapers? Upton Sinclair, of course, is ready with an answer in "The Brass Check", but perhaps it is pardonable to accept his word as contributory not final judgement. Mr. King has declared that the American press is efficient and free from bias. Of the former there can be no doubt; time and again the great newspapers of the country have astonished the American family at the breakfast table by their marvelious exploits. But it is hard to believe that the latter claim is quite true. "In America...
...fine gentlemen, it is not we who should object to their "foot-loose, devil-may-care attitude". If they took an example from us they would throw up their jobs and loaf all day instead of a few hours. How does the bible put it? Pluck the mote out of your own eye first, or something like that. I don't know. I have been too busy furthering civilization to give much thought to it. EDWIN SEAVER...
...Governing Board of the Harvard Union decided, at its last meeting, that, if any such case should arise in the future, it would fine the offender five dollars, demand that the book be returned (or if it had been lost, then replaced by a new one), and might mote out such further punishment as it saw fit. Such action in these matters, however, treats the undergraduate too much like a small boy. Such provision is all that the Governing Board, can bring forward, and yet the Board, together with those of the student body who have stopped to consider...