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...rights against guarantees in the new treaty, which, it is hoped, will result from the present conference. The Turks, with their usual barefaced equanimity, have met the Allied demands with the bland remark : " There are no capitulations; we abolished them in 1914. You have, therefore, nothing to exchange." The upshot of the matter is that the treaty was sent back to the experts for study and is not likely to come up again for general discussion until the results of a conference in Constantinople between the Turkish Government and the representatives of foreign interests become known...
...upshot is predictable. The mythical treasure is not found, but the real one, hidden by a Latin jewel robber, is finally stumbled upon...
...upshot is that too many of the better men leave college without having become honestly interested and competent in any science or art. Instead of haying paddled their own canoes at leisure along respectable stretches of the scientific or humanistic rivers they know nothing about them except impressions caught from the suspension bridges on which they have been swung across the streams at intervals. The location of the bridges has depended on the builders. Of course, they are extremely well built. That is just the trouble with them. The view from them is obviously so much better than...
Members of the Hoover National Republican Club also addressed the delegates who were present from 22 colleges, and exchanged views with them. The upshot of the discussion was put in a report and plan of campaign, which will be explained at the rally tonight. Additional information concerning the meeting and new pamphlets secured from the New York office may be obtained at Hoover headquarters in the Dunster House Bookshop today from 1.30 to 2.30 o'clock...
...foot attachment. On the day of the regatta the Harvard oarsmen discovered that fourteen crews were entered in the race and after a consultation they decided that some sort of insignia must be worn for the purpose of distinguishing the Harvard boat from the thirteen others. The upshot was that President Eliot and a fellow oarsmen were dispatched post-haste to Boston to supply the deficiency. The idea of brightly colored handkerchiefs occurring to them, the two entered a dry goods store and from a varied assortment of colored scarfs many selected Crimson as having the best visibility from...