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...willing but less education lawyer have been tested and rejected. But the primary significance of the New York regulations is not for the cause of education, but for the community at large. Though higher education does not set up to be a training in practical justice, it does purport to be a training in judgement. Evidently the New York courts have realized this and hope to take advantage of it. Perhaps the realization may spread, and it may some to be more generally felt that it is more important for the community to have lawyers of judgement than...
...talked to newsgatherers last week, but not for publication. The newsmen went away and wrote that President Calles of Mexico showed Mr. Baker last January copies of documents apparently signed by U. S. Secretary of State Kellogg, directed to the U. S. Ambassador at Mexico City, and of such purport that President Calles had made up his mind the U. S. intended war. Mr. Baker, so newsmen wrote, was instrumental in proving these communications forgeries-by whom forged, no one seemed to know-thus averting a crisis with Mexico...
...Their purport was that Mr. Borah had asked Se&241;or Calles "what per cent of the oil lands "held by U. S. citizens in Mexico had been submitted by their owners to the requirements of the confiscatory Mexican law (TIME, Feb. 1). Se&241;or Calles replied "6%," whereas Secretary of State Kellogg has said...
...rebuke to Mussolini. The editor ingeniously declared that President Coolidge and Premier Mussolini both "are agreed on the principle of the pre-eminence of spiritual things." From Mr. Coolidge was quoted: "Religion is necessary"; but the nearest similar remark which could be quoted from Mussolini was of very different purport: "Youth must be brave, honest and upright...
Much more of this nonsense from those who purport to be their graduates and Harvard and Princeton will suffer a loss of public esteem. They are generally considered the leading American colleges, a rank from which some feel they have already fallen. They deserve better publicity than this affords them. Spectator hopes that since the matter has been dragged out on the carpet again. It will now be conclusively closed. True American intercollegiate sportsmanship demands this for its own self-respect. Columbia Spectator