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...confident that the earnest desire of the majority of students here for a direct and authoritative explanation of the League situation would make it more worth while, if the Student Council and the University authorities are so minded, to secure another speaker. Of course Mr. Taft is the most prominent available leader of constructive thought on this subject. But there is no dearth of other fair-minded and serious Americans who have studied the problem. Perhaps one or more of them would be glad to address a collegiate League of Nations mass-meeting...
...life of General Edwards which may, one would hope, suppress the possible appearance of the half-dozen volumes of biography which seem destined to appear in defiance of sweet reasonableness. The Book Page is weak; but the Churchman Afield, particularly its notes, would not be despised by Mr. Leacock. The account of the War is in the Transcript's best manner, though it probably shows rather more historical knowledge than the Transcript is wont to display...
...better evidence could be desired of the dangerous growth of infidelity in Harvard than the Lampoon's travesty of the Boston Transcript. If the Lampoon had refused to believe in the usual accuracy of the first chapters of Genesis; if it had asserted that Mr. Phillip Oppenheim could not have written all the novels associated with his name; if it had urged that Ralph Waldo Trine is more spiritually nourishing than Ralph Waldo Emerson; such irreverence might reasonably have been attributed to the youthful extravagance of an epoch of change. But the Lampoon has gone further and has ventured...
...Quincy; V. A. Kramer '18 ocC., extracts from a speech of President Wilson on the League of Nations; E. B. Schwults '19, "The Monroe Doctrine." The judges were Dean Fenn, of the Divinity School; Professor J. H. Beale '82; Professor J. L. Lowes, Gr. '03, and Mr. John Moores...
...President William Howard Taft has sent word to the University that he will be unable to speak on the League of Nations in Sanders Theatre on May 27, as was previously announced. The reason for Mr. Taft's change in plans is his speaking tour of the country which will start on May 21, and will not end until the eighth of June. He was also forced to cancel his engagements to address the students of Yale and Cornell...