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The paramount objection to a plan so extensive in its scope is likely to be the cost. To build the first unit on the DeWolf Street frontage, as the report suggests, instead of on the vacant lot behind Gore, would involve the demolition of almost a block of houses. This...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SECOND YARD | 1/26/1929 | See Source »

It will be said that such a scheme would lead to specialization and narrowness. To a certain extent this objection is valid, though a wide variety of types, both social and intellectual, are certainly represented among the students who are following any broad field of knowledge. But it is difficult...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What We Shall See | 1/25/1929 | See Source »

Wilson's plan was, however, complicated by the firm roots the existing club system had taken in Princeton life. In order to win to his plan the club members, especially the graduate members, he proposed an involved and never completely formulated plan whereby "the clubs should gradually allow themselves to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton Applauds | 1/19/1929 | See Source »

Perhaps the chief objection which has been raised against the Dance, from certain quarters at least, is in regard to social considerations. It is said that the constituency of the Junior Prom is not representative of the Harvard undergraduate body. I beg to take issue with this statement. Out of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: He Stoops to Conquer | 1/18/1929 | See Source »

The Senator was somewhat disturbed when Senator Glass asked him what would happen, under the treaty, if the League of Nations took coercive measures to settle the Paraguay-Bolivian dispute. He ran his hands through his hair, hesitated, said that he did not think the U. S. could intervene provided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Treaty Maltreated | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

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