Word: showings
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Statistics of the College show that each year over half of the total enrolment is made up of Massachusetts men and a very large percent of the men are from New England. Unless Harvard wishes to become a "local university" she must exert some effort to induce more Westerners and Southerners to come to her doors...
Through these organizations the opportunities offered here could be made known to every prospective college candidate in the country. Even more vital, however, is personal effort on the part of Harvard graduates. They must remember that all people do not understand the University. They must take pains to show them for what it stands. This is an old time method of arousing interest but it is certain to make Harvard as desirable in the West as it now is here...
...League of Nations is the greatest constructive proposal made in centuries. Nevertheless, it is being opposed with such vigor by some of our Senators, that, in order to support the league, it is necessary to show that certain objections thought extremely serious by them are not well founded...
Senator Knox devoted at least 526 words of his speech of March 3rd to the end of endeavoring to show that the Covenant is badly drafted in that the high contracting parties and the league itself may be two separate entities. With all due respect to Senator Knox, it is the custom of states making a treaty to call themselves the high contracting parties and each state signing or adhering to the treaty becomes, ipso facto, a high contracting party. The writer has just had occasion to examine and copy parts of the actual texts of about fifty treaties...
...agree that the society shall be intrusted etc.', but is unrhetorical to say the society agrees that the society shall be intrusted, etc.' The same misconception of the significance of the relation of these expressions is shown in the remainder of the speech which attempts to show that two separate and distinct entities are contemplated by the Covenant. J. EUGENE HARLEY...