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World Law. A resolution calling for the first League conference on the codification of International Law was adopted. It called for the appointment before December of a preparatory commission of five jurists, whose duty will be to sift the divergencies in national law and international practice in matters concerning nationality, territorial waters and the responsibility of states for damages caused to foreigners in their countries...
...sometimes happens that one cat will sift through the cordon of stagehands to blink before footlights. When stage hands permit two cats to go astray in such embarrassment, the audience may well consider the production a casual...
Illinois. The Campaign Funds Investigating Committee of the U. S. Senate has opened headquarters in Chicago to sift charges that three millions were flung back and forth by the supporters of Frank L. Smith and Senator William B. McKinley in last month's primary. The star witness will be a pompous little man whose brain seems to live on huge financial figures, while his stolid personality presides over the gas works, electric dynamos, elevated railways and civic opera, that all contribute to make Chicago its bigger and better self. He is Samuel Insull, and it is charged that...
Probably the real difficulty in considering such jobs is the fact that there has never been any standard by which to sift the wheat from the chaff and determine which jobs are good and may be undertaken by a college man without fear and with certain hope of reward, and those which should be left untouched and not even considered...
...essence President Frank's statement constitutes a brief for the liberal college. He sees the elective system as the symbol of the confusion which has befallen education and society alike with the increasing complexity of civilization. Unable itself to sift the mass of new knowledge the university shifts to the student the onus of selecting his own studies. The modern institution of learning thus becomes a vast intellectual cafeteria at which the immature student orders a la carte and suffers indigestion for his folly. In remedy President Frank suggests abandoning the elective system and the futility of smatterings, and teaching...