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...Seventeen students in the Law School, standing among the high scholastic honor group of the second and third year men, have been chosen as Student Advisers, it was announced yesterday...
Next week the opening meeting of seventeen other courses in a great variety of subjects will be held. Most of these, too, will be held in Harvard buildings...
Next week, the Commission will hold first meetings of seventeen other courses in nearly every broad field of university study, including astronomy, American Literature, Shakespeare, English composition, elementary Psychology, German, operatic and symphonic music, modern painting, America economic history, and the development of the American constitution...
...invoked against Japan three articles of the League Covenant: 1) famed Article Ten, under which League members "undertake to respect and preserve as against external aggression" other members; 2) Article Eleven, which binds League members to act in case of "any war or threat of war"; and 3) Article Seventeen, which in all the history of the League had never been invoked before. This last provides that "in the event of a dispute between a Member of the League (i. e. China) and a State which is not a member of the League (i. e., Japan), or between States...
...such fools were Dr. Koo and Dr. Quo as to imagine Japan can be caused to accept a League "invitation" to rejoin the League for the express purpose of being chastised, but should Japan refuse. Article Seventeen is so drawn that Article Sixteen automatically is invoked and under this League States are supposed to punish the offender who goes to war by applying "Sanctions...