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...that failure Mr. Hoover speaks with an intimate knowledge and a lack of partisan heat that cannot fail to persuade. His review is detailed and overwhelming and points a moral for the future that is inescapable. The failure of Democratic leadership--"disintegration," Mr. Hoover well calls the present status of Mr. Wilson's Administration--necessitates that "the responsibilities of government be transferred." That is the single issue of the campaign in the Tribune's view, and Mr. Hoover has done a service to the country in stating the facts with such inevitable logic...
...perennial discussion concerning the largest university in the United States, Mr. Raymond Walters of Lehigh University gives some interesting statistics in an article in "School and Society." After an extensive review and tabulation of the enrolment of 30 universities for the year 1919 the following are listed as the 10 biggest institutions of this character in the country: New York, 11,237; California, 9435; Michigan, 8255; Columbia, 8069; Illinois, 8052; Minnesota, 7451; Pennsylvania, 7094; Wisconsin, 6872; Northwestern, 6798; and Ohio State...
...Holmes and Williston, the work of the earlier and the present members of the Faculty of this school, now headed by Dean Pound, constitute the most important contribution made in this country in the course of the past fifty years to the understanding of the law. The Harvard Law Review has been in large measure the vehicle of this contribution and in itself has rendered a notable service, guiding and stimulating professional thought...
...Annual meeting of the Governors of the Yale Publishing Association, Inc. (The Yale Alumni Weekly and Yale Review), Percy Jackson '85 S., presiding, 120 High street...
...opening chapter puts the conference in its setting and describes its methods of work, besides indicating the nature of the questions it had to settle. The principal problems are then passed in review Belgium and Schleswig, Alsace-Lorraine, the Left Bank of the Rhine, the Saar Valley, Poland and Czecho-Slovakia, Austria-Hungary, the Italian frontier and the states of the Balkans. The historical background is given in each case, but each problem is placed in the perspective of the negotiations at Paris and viewed primarily as one calling for practical solution in the treaties of peace. Particular attention...