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President Gerardo Machado y Morales of Cuba and President Jose Serrato of Uruguay maintained an air of Augustan calm last week while their Foreign Ministers quarreled over a sneer. Senor Alfredo Guani, Uruguayan representative in the Assembly of the League of Nations, allegedly launched the sneer by remarking while at Geneva last fall: "Cuba is tied to the U. S. by her Permanent Treaty."* This remark, unheeded by the rest of the world, has been bandied for months by the Cuban and Uruguayan press until, last week, Cuba broke off diplomatic relations with Uruguay, alleging that, "the Cuban national honor...
That very fine study of the late President Eliot which appears in the current number of Harper's inadvertently demonstrates once again the very great influence which personality has upon the undergraduate. Alumni out 20 or 30 years repeatedly approached President Eliot in his old age with the remark that the most lasting memory that they carried away from Harvard was the sight of the President walking to his office every morning...
Because personal, inspiration is almost impossible to isolate or to define it is very easy to pass it over with a sneer about "another myth", or some similar remark. Nevertheless it remains true that long after the date of the invention of gunpowder in the Occident, or the meaning of a certain Shakespearean passage, or even the scores of Harvard-Yale football games are forgotten, the graduate will still carry with him memory of some inspiring teacher with whom he has come in contact and whose influence, exerted perhaps indirectly, has been a vital factor in his life. Professor Copeland...
...postponed. Twenty-four of the 58 would-be interpolaters took advantage of the rule allowing them five minutes to explain what they wanted to talk about. Deputy Vaillant Couturier (Communist) screamed: "Mussolini is an assassin!" Calm, Premier Poincaré avoided an ''international incident" by pretending that the remark had been addressed to himself. Said he: "We are used to being called names by M. Vaillant Couturier." When the other five-minute harangues were over the Premier moved cloture. . . . Would the Chamber gag itself at his command and get down to business...
...American, sentimental didactic, too imitative often, bookish in inspiration, didactic, and typical of much of the narowness in his time and environment, has been often displayed before. So far as facts are concerned, Mr. Gorman repeats with accuracy for the most part. It may not be ungenerous, however, to remark that his summary (pp. 96-97) of American literature before Longfellow seems unhappy in its choice of critical epithets, and shaky in its chronology. One may be excused for disagreeing with the biographer's view that Longfellow's appreciation of wine is an "exotic note" and an escape "from...