Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plan to decrease importations by 10% annually. Mrs. Hamilton Wright of the U. S. delegation brought up a new proposal to send expert committees into opium-producing countries to determine what crops could be profitably grown instead of opium. Nobody could agree with anybody; all presented compromise plans; none accepted them, and there the matter rested. After U. S. Bishop Charles H. Brent had withdrawn from the Conference, disgusted, and one of the Indian delegates had been withdrawn, Japanese Delegate M. Sugimura declared he could stand no more of it, withdrew from the subcommittee. The Conference went on bravely, agreed...
...decision was emphatic to refuse to turn over Harvard profits to a national organization managing the Oxford and Cambridge team, but the intention of the members was none the less strong to promote international debating. The men felt that even though the New York organization ultimately decided that such funds must be turned over if the American team wishes to meet Oxford or Cambridge, some arrangement could be made directly with Oxford or Cambridge...
...four associate members of the new committee will make a flying trip all the way from California to Cambridge to attend the meeting, and A. G. Cable '09 of Chicago, T. K. Richards '15 of Boston and J. W. Cutler '09 of New York, the other associate members, none of whom have as yet been consulted on the situation, will also join in the conference...
...expense was spared in building Widener. The great vault of the Reading Room is gratifying to the artistic eye, and it helps materially to make the room healthful for study; yet despite these advantages the Widener atmosphere is none too pure. If the ventilating apparatus is at fault, if ought to be given immediate attention, and until its deficiencies are remedied the attendants might very well adopt the cruder method of periodically opening the windows...
...examination which Doctor Jordan proposes? It is to be hoped that the author does not take his plan too seriously. Doctor Jordan's plan deserves consideration, and that is all, for he has missed the real point of peace propaganda: it must be informal, practical, unofficial;, and direct and none of these essential qualities is ombodied in his plan...