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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...times. In like manner, Yale's move will open her doors to many more students. But is Yale going too far? Is not Latin so closely bound to our language and those of the European continent that a knowledge of it is essential to an understanding of modern speech? Can the mental training derived from the study of Latin in preparatory schools be substituted by any other course? This innovation may remove Yale from her place as a maker of leaders of men as thoroughly as though she had reinstated Greek...
...Senatorial opposition to the Covenant has based some of its strongest arguments on the violations of the United States Constitution which it appears to demand. In fact Senator Knox's speech on March 1 was based essentially on this proposition. President Lowell must show conclusively that no such violations exist, that whatever of sovereignty the United States gives up in taking her share in the responsibilities of the League will be so insignificant in comparison with the ensuing benefits as not to bear discussion. Senator Lodge, however, has an equally difficult task in successfully maintaining that America ought...
...entirely proper to say 'we 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...
...will be decided at a second mass meeting of the class of 1922 which will be held in the Gore Hall Common Room tomorrow evening at 7 o'clock. H. F. Colt '22, president of the class, will preside, and Dr. A. T. Davison, '06 will give a short speech. Dr. Davison, who has coached singing at the Freshman jubilees since the custom was started will explain the character of the festivities. The purpose of the meeting is not only to bring the matter before the class but to give the Executive Committee an idea of the class sentiment...
...will preside at Sanders Theatre, and the judges will be Enoch C. Adams, Principal of Newton High School, Frederick W. Fosdick '01, Assistant District Attorney of Middlesex County, and Clarence C. Smith '11, Recorder of the Massachusetts Land Court. Each speaker will be given 12 minutes for his main speech and five minutes for rebuttal...