Word: verdicts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...curt dismissal from office by a petulant President on February 11, 1920, still rankles within Mr. Lansing. Despite the verdict of the November elections he feels under public suspicion and in need of justification for his conduct at Paris,--hence this volume anticipating the proper task of the historian or biographer...
...Holt opened his talk with an expression of approval at the formation of a club in the University bearing the ex-President's name, which he believed, it seems, was in anticipation of the verdict of history. He then proceeded to trace through the ages the various attempts and agitations that have been made for some sort of an association or league of nations. These efforts began to reach their culmination when Mr. Taft's League to Enforce Peace met in Philadelphia before the end of the war, and gave to the world its idea of what principles such...
...Thackeray has made a special study of University snobs and speaks suavely of the whole order; those who "pride themselves in giving recherche little French dinners," the "dressy Snobs," the "sporting Snobs," the "philosophical Snobs, who are statesmen at the sporting-clubs," and many others. The rock-of-ages verdict, then, is that everyone is snobbish, and will be as long as such a thing as individualism exists. We are all of us tainted with the same sin:--where is he that can cast the first stone...
...Cambridge University has rejected a propo a to admit women on equal terms with men. A debate at the Union and a straw vote showed that the undergraduate opinion was strongly against women entering the University. While the teaching staff was evenly divided, the graduates' vote confirmed the verdict of the student body, with the resultant defeat of the proposal...
...that I am not without experience in judging debates and have on more than one occasion recognized the superiority of Harvard's opponents. In this debate, however, while I should not have thought of questioning an adverse decision, I felt that the Harvard men were entitled to the verdict, and unless I am greatly mistaken a large majority of those present would agree with...