Word: truce
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...every conceivable angle. There was one which advocated introducing the European system of instruction; another sought divisional examinations for Sophomores: still another agitated for more creative work in the tutorial field. Other essays demanded a renovation of English A. compulsory attendance at classes, limitation of admission numbers, and a truce from attacking Harvard. Some dealt with a use for Memorial Hall, a system to establish intimacy between professors and students, a literary academy for Harvard and a school of the drama...
...impulses of a rejuvenated era of artistic expression (witness the fact that he even writes for the New Republic). Last but not least, he has been labelled "approved by" actors, playwrights, and again even by those everlastingly finical and eternal plagues of critics. Could we ask for a better truce? Leo Slafsky...
Said a noted Rabbi: "The six years following the War have not been six years of peace, but six years of a truce, during which the nations of the earth have been building new war machines." The Rabbi believed the U. S. had "grievously erred" in not lending support to "the one effort to build a machine of peace...
...Truce of God" originated in the House of Commons and is the name of an agreement reached between Conservatives and Laborites. Premier MacDonald had stated his position on the Dawes plan when ex-Premier Baldwin was informed that the French Ambassador, Le Comte de Saint Aulaire, was in the Gallery. Mr. Baldwin wrote a hurried note to the Premier asking if it would embarrass the Government if he stated the Conservative point of view. The Premier nodded that it would not. Mr. Baldwin then arose and asked: " Is the right honorable gentleman aware that in his attitude he will have...
...Truce...