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...able to deal effectively with the matter. Under the present plan General Wood would be made High Commissioner of Armenia. He would be instructed by the League as to the general policy to be followed, and would be expected to strengthen Armenia so that she could defend herself, yet restrain her from becoming too aggressive in her turn. If he accepts the position, he will be asked to assume his duties immediately...
...Sheldon will present his views on the different aspects of the labor situation, particularly in regard to the open shop, collective bargaining and compulsory arbitration. He is a strong defender of the first two principles, but believes that the last does more to cultivate the striking habit than to restrain it. He lays this fault principally to the impossibility of enforcing the strike-prevention law. While America is in a stage of industrial upheaval, Australia has already gone through this development, and in Mr. Sheldon's speech its experience should be valuable in the settling of problems here...
...time for people to stop cursing the recognized labor leaders; in them the immediate destiny of the nation rests. Given public support, they will be able to restrain their bolting subordinates. But if this support is not given, the country is laying itself open to radical inroads, leading we know not where...
...Turkish Ambassador was handed his passports for calling attention to the inconsistency between our national preaching and practice. Never once during the late war did the German press fail to gloat over American atrocities, while now, with the Treaty of Peace not yet signed, our Allies can hardly restrain the accusing finger at our "peculiar American practice of lynching." When it was considered that President Wilson might intervene in Ireland's behalf, it was seriously moved in the English House of Commons that a committee be appointed to investigate and report upon the American institution of lynching, while only this...
...limit arbitrarily a man's capacity for work, to restrain ability, is non-congruent with the ideals and aims of Harvard. An undergraduate may go whither his powers lead him; no cage is placed about him. Our sister universities sacrifice the individual for the entire group, when, if they would but seek them, tasks for all would be found, without limiting the exceptional undergraduate...