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...When the Poles explained that they were ready to negotiate for a non-aggression pact, of course we agreed and commenced negotiations. What is there to fear from the German standpoint? . . . We must state in the pact that we will employ no force and undertake no act of aggression in order to change Poland's frontiers or to violate its independence. Just as we give the Poles this promise, so they must give us a similar pledge...
These books are mostly from the fourteenth century and are considered valuable from a standpoint of age and for their find illumination, and represent chiefly the works of German monks. They are part of the collection of medieval manuscripts donated by Senator Charles Sumner...
...University Club at the Boston Garden. Coach Stubbs has agreed to have the game played under the old amateur rules which bar offside passing despite the fact that Harvard will play most of its games this season under the professional code. The game is not official from the Harvard standpoint but has been arranged so that the University Club, Boston's Olympic aspirants, can try out various player combinations and improve its teamwork...
From a legal standpoint the telegram, if genuine, was interesting. But to read it to a National Assembly was an old man's folly. By excusing the Thirteenth Alfonso as "timid," loyal old Count de Romanones sealed such doom as Spain's National Assembly could inflict...
...courses offered will acquaint themselves with the latest additions in factual knowledge regarding the subjects in which they are interested. More important, they will benefit in some degree from the intellectual stimulation which comes with contact with instructors, and from once more-approaching important problems from the academic standpoint. Wesleyan's step is one more witness to the growing realization that education is not a consumption of canned goods, the "transfer of material from the lecturer's notebook to the students", without its passing through the mind of either", but is a continuous process...