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...events, it has long served as the sovereign remedy for all personal "humours", biasses, and quirks of character. From time immemorial boys have used this method in bringing their "queer" companions up to normal. To them the customary has meant perfection, the conventional has been their idea of the correct. Unfortunately this view and the habit of trying to force everyone to "do what the crowd does", has been the means of crushing many an extraordinary personality when it was in the formative stage. Shelley's classmates did their best to force his queerness into the average path, but fortunately...
...purpose of the meetings organized by the Committee to discuss "Intellectual problems" in general but rather to show how the Catholic philosophy may be applied as a sovereign touchstone for the solution of all the questions which agitate the modern mind...
...period and analyzing the condition of a country at that time find that lack of transportation will account for many evils. The squabbles of the nobles in England before Henry VII may have been due as much to poor roads as to the lack of a strong sovereign. It is conceivable that the American revolution might have been postponed if not avoided by speedier transportation of goods and ideas...
...book contains, first, a collection of Harvard songs, beginning with "Fair Harvard" and the stirring "Harvard Hymn", and including football songs old and new, familiar and less familiar. The new Converse song, "Harvard, Sovereign Mother", is a feature of this part of the book. In the remainder of the volume are fifty or more songs of various types, ranging from the splendid "Prayer of Thanksgiving" at one extreme to "Hall, Hall, the Gang's All Here!" at the other...
Harmel, the last speaker of the evening, treated the question from the standpoint of the United States. He stated that America can not afford to abandon its traditional policies and its sovereign rights by entering the League, and that the conditions in Europe today do not merit the sacrifice. He maintained that America can serve the world far more effectively outside of the League than if she were in it. To bear out this point he added that the United States can point to a remarkable series of achievements towards the promotion of international peace since the inception...