Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alone this varied gathering is well worth looking at. But for anyone who is something more than a gaping tourist Geneva in September is far more than just another great sight. It offers a broad and fascinating experience to all who possess any interest in international affairs, be their special field politics, economics, medicine, education, manners and customs, or what-not. It offers opportunity as well as experience. And no group which comes to Geneva has as fine a chance for development along these many different lines as that composing the students of college age from near...
...world within twice sixty minutes (in comparison with the famous sixty days of Jules Verne), is exceptionally interesting, but after all it is only a small part of the League. Heavier work is done in the Council meetings, and the heaviest work of all in the sessions of the special committees. In addition the student of the League will find much to keep him occupied in investigating the activities of the Secretariat, in nosing about its immense library on international affairs, and in acquainting himself with the world-wide exertions of the International Labour Bureau...
...course, there are probably other things equally as worthy of criticism in this special Class Day number, but the two at hand seem to be the most salient topics. The bit on the opening page, entitled "Class Day Conversational Guide" is quite amusing, but the same cannot be said for the trolley car scene underneath which gives an outworn joke a rather new but dull twist...
...later history of the religious foundations of the Middle Ages four points stand out which are of special relevance for our purpose. In the first place, the Abbott, the head of the house, had come to be a great territorial lord. He sat in parliament. He moved in the highest circles of society at court. Often he held great offices of state. It was complained that he was autocratic; that he was wont to act without consulting the chapter, and to use the seal of the foundation as if it were his own. Even more, complaint was made that...
...addition to the extra-mural interests and activities which distracted the head of the house, there came to be a special source of distraction affecting the brethren. In earlier times, in the golden age of monasteries, only those with a calling or even a genius for monastic life entered religious houses. . . . But in time men came to take up monastic life for other reasons. . . . It has been said that in the later Middle Ages men began to enter monasteries "as a profession". Thus many came to religious houses who were unsuited to the life and lowered its standards. They...