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Senator Knox devoted at least 526 words of his speech of March 3rd to the end of endeavoring to show that the Covenant is badly drafted in that the high contracting parties and the league itself may be two separate entities. With all due respect to Senator Knox, it is the custom of states making a treaty to call themselves the high contracting parties and each state signing or adhering to the treaty becomes, ipso facto, a high contracting party. The writer has just had occasion to examine and copy parts of the actual texts of about fifty treaties...
...respected to the guidance of reconstruction than those of any of the foreign colleges. In the first place, America has lost fewer of her young men than any other country engaged in the war, and also it is to her, as Mr. Wilson said recently in his Boston speech, that Europe looks for leadership in the present era of reconstruction...
Colt opened the meeting with a short speech and introduced Dean Mayo who explained the scholarship system of the University. H. H. Faxon president of the Class of 1921 last year made the presentation...
...most pertinent and telling objection to the League Constitution appeared-in the editorial columns of the Boston Herald last week and later in Senator Lodge's speech. The hypothetical case of a dispute arising between the United States and another country over the question of immigration was taken up and it was shown that if the case were decided against us and the other party approved of the decision, we should be compelled by the rules of the league to surrender our right of sovereignty to just that extent. This argument seems to me unanswerable. It is simply a question...
...seemed fitting at this place that we have an old-fashioned class banquet This was arranged in an artillery dog out in the front lines. While the Colonel was making his after dinner speech, such a terrific bombardment arose that he could not continue. At the same time he was obliged to give orders to his battery to send a round of shells into the hostile lines. After the deafening noise had ceased and the Colonel had resumed his place, the celebration continued and was finished without interruption. We believe that the class of 1901 holds the honor of being...