Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...European students, after completing a tour of thirty American colleges, were unanimous and emphatic in their criticisms. Perhaps their most interesting remark was one which had to do with undergraduate activities. In this country, an English student, said, one goes to college not to develop himself, but to distinguish himself. Since the road to distinction leads at present through athletics and "activities" rather than through studies, a distortion of emphasis naturally results. A student's object becomes to "make" a club, team, or organization; and he feels content when he has attained that object...
Almost a century and a half ago Benjamin Franklin made his famous remark on the importance of "hanging together", and the remark, together with the "Saturday Evening Post", has come down from that day to this. This afternoon, with the same end in view, the Intercollegiate Newspaper Association will discuss the problems before it, and the means to be adopted in solving them...
...truth is that as yet neither of these things has happened. The only two prominent Republicans who openly voiced their opposition to the President's remarks were Senators Borah and La Follette. A larger number of Republican Senators-Smoot, McKinley, Sterling, McNary and others-came out openly in favor of the President's proposal. Several important Republican leaders kept scrupulous silence-and in some cases it was a silence of disapprobation. Senator Moses, chairman of the Republican Senatorial Committee is in Europe-but an irreconcilable. Representative Wood, chairman of the corresponding House committee, is known to be opposed...
...rights in Turkey under the terms of the capitulation treaties. They are, however, willing to exchange these rights against guarantees in the new treaty, which, it is hoped, will result from the present conference. The Turks, with their usual barefaced equanimity, have met the Allied demands with the bland remark : " There are no capitulations; we abolished them in 1914. You have, therefore, nothing to exchange." The upshot of the matter is that the treaty was sent back to the experts for study and is not likely to come up again for general discussion until the results of a conference...
...Swope, executive editor of The New York World, is justly proud of many things, including a roving reporter, Mrs. Clare Sheridan. Her despatches to The World (about Rudyard Kipling, Ireland, the Rhineland, Constantinople, Mussolini) have just been published under the title West and East, and are prefaced with the remark: " I have lost my belief in the infallibility of the Anglo-Saxon race. I have ceased to believe in equality, freedom or justice...