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...this Nation believe in their Constitution, but they do not understand the justice of Senate rules under which, at times, one senator exercises a power greater than the veto power granted by the Constitution to the President of the United States; under which, at times, one senator can render the Senate impotent, and under which secret legislative barter is encouraged, which not only modifies the due course of legislative processes, but legislation itself." Almost simultaneously with the making of Mr. Dawes' speech, appeared Senator Moses' "reply"-an article in The Saturday Evening Post. His remarks were more discursive...
...today, in spite of 'Jonahs,' we are able to present to the world a solid structure, not built on clouds, but founded on a rock of solid realities. Reduction of armaments is not yet achieved, but an important step has been made toward it. Let us render thanks to the League of Nations...
Time was when beer flowed freely in the Yard on Class Day, it being thought perhaps, that their imminent departure from the old place would cast a gloom over the festivities and render Seniors melancholy when they should be most jovial. But times have changed, "lest one good custom should corrupt the world". Yet Class Day remains much the same as before, for Seniors are by nature gay and frolic some at this particular time. The trials and tribulations of four long years are past and happily surmounted, and the future is full of smiling promise...
...meeting under the heading MEDICINE. It happens that my revered father, now dead for many years, was an undertaker. So perhaps I may be permitted to reply. In youth, I attended small business gatherings of undertakers with my father and never found anything to make my "gorge rise." Undertakers render a genuine and necessary service to society and they deserve all the more sympathy if that service is one which the average man finds unpleasant. They have every right to discuss the technique of their work and its improvement without arousing anger or scorn. I may add, also, for presumably...
American educational foundations, with all the defects which are involved in their operations under the conditions to which they have yet to be adapted, are justified many times over, and the endowments that are lavished upon them are more than justified by the service they render and the character of the services they may yet render to society...