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...From the welter of misinformation and popular ignorance that surround the recent Senatorial defeat of the Resolution to join the World Court, certain facts stand out with ironical clarity. It is important to realize that the Resolution was defeated primarily because of the astonishingly effective propaganda aroused over the short space of one week-end by those two staunch protectors of one hundred per cent Americanism, Father Coughlin and the Hearst papers. "Joining the court," said the former, "to maintain peace strongly stinks of diplomatic deceit." He was aided no end by the latters' publishing the pictures of Great American...
...flowed officially last week out of the Mosul province of Irak, out of a 35-year welter of some of the world's most intricate connivance and double-cross...
...Massacre; William Warnecke's famed shot of Mayor Gaynor wounded; public executions in the Chinese manner (strangulation), the French manner (guillotine), the Mexican manner (shooting), the Persian manner (interment), the Abyssinian manner (dismemberment), the Japanese manner (decapitation), the British manner (gallows), the U. S. manner (lynching). Amid the welter of dead and dying, more gentle readers will find relief in such shots as those of a cat carrying her kitten across a traffic-jammed city street; the Catholic Shrine at Lourdes; a swarm of locusts in Kenya Colony...
...would disagree with the principle behind Dean Murdock's Report. The purpose of the Tutorial System is to furnish students with the intellectual stimulus of an advanced mind and with guidance through the welter of unnecessary material belaboring any field of study. Obviously, the system was not designed to compete with Cambridge Tutoring Schools whose only object is to cram unprepared men with the material necessary to pass an examination. If, as Dean Murdock seems to feel, increasing numbers of students are demanding of their tutors information available through research, the evils need to be brought out into the open...
...reported. And as a newspaper the "News" bids final farewell to the delusion that it is meant solely to reflect undergraduate opinion. Here our predecessor has blazed the trail for us by pointing out the dullness and the futility of trying to enunciate what is representative in the welter of student thought. We go further in maintaining that if our opinions are worth expressing, they must lead, they must be in the forefront...