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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...situation, then, is that a World Court is a fundamental necessity and that there is only one World Court available. Moreover, unless or until America joins the League of Nations, there is no practical way in sight for our joining the World Court except that which was worked out by Secretary Hughes and approved by Presidents Harding and Coolidge as well as supported by the party platforms of both political parties. There is no excuse, therefore, for making a political issue out of the Court, and any man who, like Senator Boran, talks about repudiating the party pledge...
Amherst, Washington and Lee, and Swarth more have been the victims of Coach Roper's eleven, but the Tiger's record is not so unimpressive as it appears at first sight. The Annapolis eleven, strong in spite of the overwhelming defeat it suffered at the hands of Michigan last Saturday, was held to a tie by Princeton, and the only team to defeat the Tigers has been Colgate, unbeaten so far this season...
This widespread prosperity for 1925 was largely predicated upon easy money conditions, and as yet no end to this favorable factor is in sight. Moreover, the Locarno Conference has led the way definitely and decisively to peace in Europe, reduction in armaments, balanced budgets and business recovery...
...established traditions are sure to encounter. It should mix caution with courage. Nothing is easier than to outline an ideal scheme of college education based on the hypothesis that all teachers are supermen and that all students are paragons of industry. But unhappily on such Utopian conditions are in sight. What we want is something that will point the way to a better use of the human material at hand. Harvard Alumni Bulletin...
...distracting influences of the footlights. To abolish the footlights in reality, as some propose, does not mean yet to abolish them in our imagination; it must be done so that-the spectator, as if happening to find himself on the stage, that is, the place of action, will lose sight of the footlights; they will remain behind him; in other words, they will destroy themselves...