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Zinoviev, Chairman of the Internationale, derided those foreigners who state that the Soviet Government is only a branch of the Communist Internationale. He pointed out that, whereas Communism "sways only one-sixth" of the world today, within four years it will "sway half the world...
...before the President. To this custom the Hot Springs advocates owe, in part, their success. For with as reliable a city as Washington (judged from Hasty Pudding standards) on the list, the club feels that the southern trip is sure to be successful. Other arguments that tended to sway the opposition were that Hot Springs is the converging point, during April, of many influential Middle Westerners, and that since some members of the Hasty Pudding have relatives in Hot Springs at the time, the show will not enter the town unheralded...
Harvard's Own hold sway...
Fair Harvard holds sway...
...such a sentiment prevail and the gods of efficiency and utility fall not merely in their onslaught on the English universities but in maintaining their sway over American education, it may be due, paradoxically, to their finding themselves better served in the end by the traditional liberal education. Mr. Leys has pointed out that in England among the better business men there is a preference for a man of liberal education. Efficiency and Utility, it must be admitted, are ugly words, but they are so largely because of their connotation of mechanical precision and mass production. In their broader sense...