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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...want war. We want to help Germany obtain its first political success ; to defend our right of self-determination in choosing our candidate for the highest post in the country despite intrigues. Victory over the socialistic Internationale means improvement in working conditions, means victory over international capital, which already is beginning to untie its money bags to oppose the nomination of our great ideal: Hindenburg. Therefore, with Jarres for Hindenburg...
...educated man. And what is so conductive to poise as mastery of a foreign tongue? To acquire a new language is to acquire a new soul. It destroys narrowness, provincialism, and national conceit. It makes for sympathetic understanding. That is why we require the Satellites, all of them, to obtain a reading knowledge of either Chinese or Sanscrit, and an elementary knowledge of the other...
...Everything has been sacrificed to obtain the maximum of seating ca- pacity at the minimum of cost. The architectural misfits are by no means confined to the West and South. We have them in the East...
...really total. For a few weeks each spring, the doors were unlocked for the repetition of the well known course of "sepulchral lectures in anatomy" perseveringly delivered year in and year out by the Warrens. In order to capitalize to the greatest degree possible the rare and difficult to obtain subjects, usually one corpse a year the lectures were often from two to three hours long...
Many entries among the dormitories owned by the college are among those not yet heard from. In many cases the collections which have, been turned in have been extremely low. In one entry in Cleverly, for instance, the collector was only able to obtain two dollars...