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...decided to follow Sir Alfred Mond's lead (TIME, Feb 8) and resigned from the party.* On the last day of the meeting the Laborite Daily Herald exulted: "Within the last few days the disappearance from the political arena of the corpse of Liberalism has been brought much nearer. Lloyd George stands alone, without friends and without support...
...justification directly assigned for the change by the Harvard CRIMSON is that "it brings nearer the day when (all) Harvard undergraduates (except freshmen) will rightfully be regarded as conscientious students, interested in their own scholastic welfare and hence competent to regulate their own attendance at college classes." Probably this is the goal which the Harvard authorities had uppermost in mind when they made the new grant, and unquestionably it is one of the ends which the grant will serve. The change promotes emphasis upon the undergraduate's own desire to gain real values from his college career, with diminishing stress...
...extension to the Junior and Sophomore classes. Its application to Freshmen will probably never be either practicable or desirable, as it would add materially to the danger of the already critical period of transition between secondary school and college. The present change in itself is trivial, but it brings nearer the day when Harvard undergraduates will rightfully be regarded as conscientious students, interested in their own scholastic welfare and hence competent to regulate their own attendance at college classes...
Charles R. Forbes, former Director of the Veterans' Bureau, convicted (TIME, March 10, 1924, ARMY & NAVY) of conspiracy to defraud the Government in connection with the letting of contracts for hospitals, last week appeared to draw nearer to prison. He had been sentenced, with John W. Thompson, a contractor, to two years in prison and a $10,000 fine. The U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, having reviewed the case, last week affirmed the lower court's decision. The convicted men may still appeal to the Supreme Court. It is alleged that they are very...
Since the War, Ignace Jan Paderewski had consistently refused to play the piano at Washington, D. C., and had approached (professionally) no nearer the Capital than Hagerstown, Md. (TIME, Nov. 30). A most sensitive individual, M. Paderewski was revolted by the thought of charming dollars out of the pockets of statesmen whom he had known officially during his historic term as Prime Minister of Poland. Thus when Mrs. Coolidge entered her box at Poli's Theatre with Mmes. Dawes, Hoover, Longworth and Mr. John Coolidge, it was to hear him play for charity (American Legion Endowment Fund for Disabled Soldiers...