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...finally admitted a direct military need of 1,200,000,000 lb. per annum, hoped to get 200,000,000 from Canada, 300,000,000 from scrap...
Despite administrative protests that the new three year requirements will not constitute a lowering of Harvard standards, it is fairly plain that the ruling is strictly an emergency measure. Trite as it may seem, much of a college education is contained not in the four courses plus tutorial per annum but rather in the life outside of classes. Twenty years out of college, so our elders tell us, one is more likely to remember riots than lectures, and friends than textbooks. Not only will the new regulations cut down the period of college life by almost a full year...
...benevolently watchful British Government. To all Iraq, and most particularly London and Cairo, the Regent broadcast word that El-Gailani and a small group of Army officers had been seduced by Axis fifth columnists,* were trying to separate Britain from 4,000,000 tons of oil per annum and the all-important friendship of the Arab world...
Pond's contract, at $8,000 per annum, was not due to expire until next year, and some settlement will have to be made. Nelson is understood to have agreed to a salary of $5,000, right in line with Yale's recent decision to slash the athletic budget wherever possible. Yale's grid gate receipts were $100,000 below expectations this fall, making it necessary for Ogden Miller to tighten the Blue athletic belt without giving up big-time football...
Never has Jesus been so potent in the affairs of men as in the past 14 decades. The years from Anno Domini 1800 to Annum Domini 1940 have been the period in which he has moulded mankind as never before. This flat statement, a shock to many who have long accepted the glib belief that "the world is drifting away from Christianity," was not made by an ignoramus. It was made by Kenneth Scott Latourette. Professor of Missions and Oriental History at Yale University. Three years ago Dr. Latourette started writing a monumental six-volume History of the Expansion...