Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mind as his successor M. Moreau. On the assumption that Germany really cannot pay as much as France is sure she can, it might be well for the French government's chief financial adviser to find that out for himself in Berlin. Persistent rumors apart, there was no reason for supposing that Mr. Young leaned toward any such assumption...
...reason the Hotel Sacher has never made any money, though it is always full, is that Frau Sacher kept house frankly for aristocrats. The Sacher is the only restaurant in Vienna where the double-headed eagle hangs on the dining room walls and the imperial crown is on the porcelain. Loyal Frau Anna often allowed princes and archdukes to stay at Sacher's rent free. No rooms were ever available at Sacher's for tourists whom Frau Anna did not consider sufficiently haut...
...Rabindranath Tagore, Indian poet, playwright, mystic, last week abandoned his intended tour of the U. S., sailed for home from San Francisco. Reason: disgust with
This purely practical reason has prompted Harvard to remain apart from athletic leagues among the colleges. There may be, it is true, some danger that the necessary activities of the governing body of any such league might come into disturbing contact with the policy of a single college. Where the intra-university program is especially extensive, as at Harvard, the obligation of conforming to the rules of an external organization might be an unfortunate...
...fact that a student is unable to follow the events of the day in some organized lecture course is however, no reason for his ignoring them completely. Inevitably some of them will have an effect on his future life and as a result should call forth a vital interest on his part. If the New York Times contest can help to stimulate this interest, it is fulfilling a role which the college cannot adequately handle and its existence is fully justified...