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...would involve the ridiculous situation of our acknowledging a government as a legitimate ruler abroad which refuses in practice to regard our government as legitimate in this country. Secretary Hoover, in a letter to the International Committee of the Y. M. C. A., gave his opinions, from an economic standpoint, on our relations with Russia. His points were: 1) that official recognition would not promote trade relations with Russia -other governments have tried the experiment and failed, 2) that all charitable relief can hope to do is "lift special groups from utter destitution up to the level of the general...
...considered in Government 4, 15, and 23, dealing with International Law, and in Government 14, dealing with American Diplomacy. The relations between the different parts of the American Federal State and the rights of individuals are dealt with most fully in Government 12 and 13, and, from the technical standpoint of the lawyer, in Government 19, American Constitutional Law. A closely related course in another department is History 13, which deals with the development of the American Constitution. Problems of a more theoretical nature are considered in Government 3a and 6. A closely related course in another department is Philosophy...
President Lowell, the principal speaker of the evening, told of his trip abroad and also told of the Ruhr situation,--both from the French and German standpoint. Speaking of his trip abroad President Lowell described the life and characteristics of the English universities of Oxford and Cambridge. There are 18 colleges in Cambridge and 21 in Oxford, according to President Lowell, and life in both of these universities, which are conducted in practically the same manner, is indeed delightful. Each day the students in the separate colleges meet for dinner and thus get to know each other very well...
...subject of his lecture today will be "Atomic Models" in which he will deal with the subject mainly from a technical and mathematical standpoint...
...poverty, celibacy, obedience and hard work. They sacrifice their personal comfort for a remote and dubious objective, hard to attain, dimly understood, and of more or less speculative value. It is a form of monasticism, a rejection of the world for the edification of the spirt. From this standpoint, the employment of Mr. Haughton at Columbia ought to be regarded as a happy taken of the increase of spirituality in our universities. It would be a mistake to think of it as a concession to the spirit of materialism, to which these mighty stadium-cathedrals are being erected all over...