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There has been much variation of opinion as to the advisability of the forthcoming conference. But, as Dr. Anderson points out, the effect of a rate reduction in just one country would go far to reestablish confidence and lubricate the wheels of trade. Perhaps the writer is a trifle optimistic; universal benefit can come only through universal understanding and sacrifice. Certainly the most encouraging single factor of the problem, however, is that the average business man has seen the lesson of the past three years and the fatal consequences of the slogan "high tariffs mean high wages." Before international confidence...
...been more just and far-sighted to commute the sentences to a real term of imprisonment; for only thus could he have assured the natives of his impartiality and secured a retrial of the offending Hawaiians. At present, law in Hawaii stands riddled with race prejudice and contempt; to reestablish its prestige will prove a task almost impossible under present conditions of faltering leadership and public indifference...
...lived in Palestine the past ten years. Nine years ago he visited the U. S. Fellow Zionists call him "The Iron Will." But his first name, Menachem, means "the comforter." There is an interesting reverse parallelism between Menachem Ussishkin, one of those under whom the Jews are trying to reestablish themselves in Palestine, and King Menahem under whom the Israel ites, Jewish brethren, almost lost the region. The Israelites were still worshipping Jeroboam's golden-calves in Menahem's reign, about 2,668 years ago, when Pul (nickname for King Tiglath-pileser of As syria) came down...
...President Grant had cancer of the throat. A curious historical coincidence: the great problem of his incumbency was also fiscal-to reestablish the gold par value of U. S. greenbacks...
Although these changes may be attributed largely to more fundamental causes than that of numerical growth. It will probably be admitted that the further restriction of numbers or the break-up of the college into smaller units would help reestablish the democratic spirit of the old Yale. Since it is advisable to cut the quota for admissions, the solution seems to lie in the reorganization of Yale College on the plan of the English universities on the basis of the old system of class distinctions, or by a scheme which combine both principles...