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...undergraduate college lives on terms of social intimacy and common understanding with men from all of the different parts of the country is far better educated and far better qualified to become a useful citizen than is the man educated in a group predominantly from a single area. Not only will it be a great advantage to the country to have Harvard's influence spread as it will be spread under the proposed plan, but it will likewise be of great advantage to Harvard itself...
...expedition of less than a dozen took the White Pass and Yukon Railroad up from Skagway to Carcross, 70 miles northeast. This bleak, one-hotel town served as base for the two airplanes by which the area to be mapped was completely photographed. Upon these photographs the overland sledge journey for the actual surveying was planned...
...some of the customarily friendly citizens of Cambridge had Cambridge Common closed to football and the players then went to Holmes Field, then a rough, uneven area poorly adapted to any sport--contrast later...
...Broker" between Britain and Italy, French Premier Pierre Laval has based all his efforts upon convincing His Majesty's Government that the Ethiopian war is no world-shaking matter on which the League's future or Britain's depends but a mere affair of "some localized area." Last week the appearance of this phrase in a speech by Squire Baldwin was a leading development. Though some excited citizens still put the issue to themselves in terms of the necessity of preserving Ethiopian independence at all costs, many a British citizen was commencing to ask himself last week...
...north, meanwhile, Japanese had been busy early last week tying their string to the demilitarized area near Peiping in which Japanese "ronin" provocateurs recently stirred up Chinese farmers to revolt and seize two towns (TIME, Nov. 4). Deriving his authority from Nanking, the Chinese satrap on the spot, General Shang Chen, sat down and made a deal last week with the Japanese Army representative in North China, General Hayao Tada. "The Deal," according to General Shang: "General Tada promised me to control the activities of the Japanese ronin now and in the future. He agreed that I shall send...