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That a law shall be enacted to remove the exclusion clause from the new Immigration Bill. I request by my death the withdrawal of the Japanese exclusion clause because I greatly regret that your country, which has always advocated peace from a humanitarian viewpoint and has been known as a leader for peace throughout the world, enacted the Japanese exclusion clause in complete disregard of humanity...
...forth no fruit. He himself once said that one might as well "try to nail jelly to a wall" as to try and negotiate with Colombia. The President did not foster the revolt, but he sympathized with it and helped it after it had broken out. From a utilitarian viewpoint, if from no other, his actions were entirely justified. Even so great a critic as Lord Bryce endorsed his policy...
Upon little courtesies such as this a better feeling of intercollegiate friendship and sympathy is bound to arise. Too often in the heart of competition between institutions the immediate result victory, is overemphasized. The bigger and finer things, such as better relations, a broader viewpoint and the thrill of the competition itself are some-times overlooked in the desire to win. Victory become so large the greater benefits hidden behind intercollegiate competition are lost from sight. It is unfortunate that the relation between these tangible and intangible ideals should sometimes become distorted but it is often the case and cannot...
Alumni have shown no lack of interest in the growth of athletic and even scholastic prestige of their own colleges. What has become imperative is a less selfish viewpoint. Surveys like that made by Upton Sinclair disclose an astounding hodgepodge of educational standards and methods, and this is inevitable as long as every college urged on by its alumni, seeks to cover the whole range of learning from liberal arts to applied science, and as long as secondary schools seek to prepare both for vocations and for college. A clearer definition of functions a national educational policy and system...
...Bolshevik critics attacked both authors from a purely Marxian viewpoint, but were harsher to Lunacharsky than to Shakespeare. They thought Shakespeare's play was capable of "'proletarian" interpretation, though as produced in Moscow, gave a "disgusting, vulgar, ignorant, bloodthirsty" effect...