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...please the diplomats by attempting to free the foreign captives. Each had a different plan. The result was that the Cabinet split. Even the brusque message from Jacob Gould Schurman, United States Minister, to get on with the business of freeing prisoners and cease haggling, only served to widen the breaches in the Cabinet...
...purpose the discussion of questions vital to university newspapers such as a uniform editorial policy, syndicated articles by prominent men, and a more uniformly satisfactory system for the exchange of intercollegiate news. But it will have besides this the object of improving its organization, so that it may widen its influence over college publications...
Meanwhile, it would be a great advance toward international understanding if we were to widen our acquaintance with French, which must be for most people of English speech, the second language, even if Latin becomes an auxiliary tongue and if Donnay and his countrymen were to learn to speak and write English as well as Chevrillen, the nephew of the Taine, who with Donnay represented the French Academy at the Moliere celebration in America. --New York Times...
...immediate appeal. The members of the graduate schools should be given a higher classification than the present one because (1) it is their only chance to get good seats unless they are also Harvard or Yale graduates (2) they are a part of Harvard and, unless we wish to widen the breach which already exists between the Schools and the College, more recognition should be given to their relation to Harvard...
...debates on the League of Nations, strikes, and professional football, we should like to consign them to the nethermost fire! We want more and wider pathways; a dry and firm footing on the road to knowledge. Our platform has but four planks--all of them to be used to widen the present walks...