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Charles Beecher Warren, who, with John Barton Payne, is representing the United States, reports that the conference often assembles morning, noon and night. According to Mr. Warren, there is only one more "hurdle" to surmount, after which the conference will...
...else. In fact, the book might be called "Memories of Mountains", for there is not one essay which, sooner or later, does not describe the peculiarities of the country's mountain ranges. At times their purple majesty awed him, but generally craggy heights and shining glaciers were obstacles to surmount, in record time, if possible. I strongly suspect that Suvaroff's Alpine Campaign, which he tells of in an essay by that name, interested him mainly because it took place in the most beautiful part of Helvetia, and because he admired the courage of those Russian lowlanders who bravely followed...
...Headlines should be fully warranted by the contents of the articles which they surmount...
...course which is planned for the man with the schoolboy attitude. "This method," he says, "of treating both sections as though they were unwilling has the great disadvantage of failing to educate either." In this statement there is a large measure of truth, although some of the "eager" probably surmount the difficulty; yet if they do, it is because they started college with some qualifications worthy of the name education. As a remedy it is suggested that the eager and the unwilling be separated; that the methods used in one, be quite different from those in the other, section...
...Irish Question, but present indications point for its postponment until May or even later. The situation is certainly as serious as any Lloyd George has ever had to face, but he has slipped through so many trying places that few among his supporters would be surprised to see him surmount his present difficulties and be again victorious...