Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...restraint exerted by the "Board in Control of Student Publications" has not been continued to this one case, or even one paper In 1921 the trenchant exposures of a certain evil and irreverent student were forbidden in all university publications. Later an editor of the "Magazine" was taken to task severely on account of a favorable review of that iniquitous journal, "The Nation." And it is undeniable that the editor of the "Gargoyle" was threatened with expulsion if he continued to print jokes on prohibition or co-eds,--which seems to be the one really judicious bit of censorship accomplished...
There is no hope at present of the United States Government offering mediation between the French and Germans. It is not even sure that America would be willing to undertake the task, if asked; just now the French would certainly consider it an unfriendly action. The British Government, yielding to political pressure, may suggest that a settlement be decided by an impartial court or the League of Nations. At present indications point that the Government feels with Lord Derby, who recently remarked: "My heart goes with France, but my head remains on the other side of the Rhine...
...disagreement over the boundary dividing Lithuania and Poland at the time both these countries received their liberty. Immediately war was prevented by the League of Nations, which marked off a neutral zone to keep the two nations on friendly terms and then took on the thankless task of settling their dispute. After much deliberation the Council of the League determined on Feb. 3 the course of the demarcation line and ordered Poland to occupy her portion of the neutral zone. A. desultory war has been in progress ever since...
Schoolmasters are not equipped to conduct the delicate task of effecting the exchange of pupils. They and the schools which they represent, and the trustees which back them, should signify a willingness to welcome foreign boys. An international agency, such as the Junior Red Cross, might then very well undertake the business of selecting the boy representatives on both sides. What American students in school and college should do is to develop the welcoming habit of mind. Then if our schools are permitted to make the generous venture, we students here at home will be ready to do our share...
...extract the meaning, not up to the writer to offer it. If the author writes everything that pops into his head-or that is supposed to pop into the head of a given character-that is all that should be asked. Lucidity is no part of the auctorial task...