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...history of Reparations is a history of international misunderstandings. In the years immediately after the war many of the delegates could be accused of wilful blindness. And in this blindness the Germans have often been foremost. With all the good will in the world they have come into conferences, and through failure to understand the other fellow and an unfortunate habit of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time have brought down the wrath of the Allies upon their heads...
...Lewisohn's meaning is often obscure, his message occasionally fanatical, but the consistent dignity and rhythm of his prose are hypnotic. Mr. Lippmann's meaning, on the contrary, is always clear, his message pragmatic, his diction incisive, effective...
Such alumni pointed to Girard Trustee Francis Shunk Brown, an attorney who has often friended Pennsylvania's U. S. Senator-suspect William Scott Vare, and to Albert M. Greenfield, a realtor recently elected to the Board of Trustees. Realtor Greenfield has been a large contributor to Vare election funds. Trustees of Girard are elected by the Judges of the Common Pleas Court, whom Senator-suspect Vare reputedly controls. If the Judges should have occasion to elect more Vare men to be Girard trustees, what, wondered the alarmed alumni, might happen to the huge Girard endowment...
...Harvard undergraduates will dispute the contention that course examinations which require pure memorizing are of little permanent value. Nor will they deny that students can often accomplish more toward attaining a grasp of a given field of study through independent reading than through the fulfillment of an inelastic set of course requirements. The question which arises in connection with Mr. Fairbank's letter, printed else-where in these columns, is how far present conditions at Harvard over-emphasize course work and what benefits could be derived from a further reduction in course requirements--particularly those of Seniors...
...there can be considerable question as to whether one likes the play or not. Such sombre stuff as this is does not appeal to many even when as perfectly presented as in the present case. A play in which misfortune strikes as severely and as often as in "The Wild Duck", is removed from that anaesthetic type of entertainment which so many seek when at the theatre...