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...McKinlock. The Council report "deplores any attempt to build houses beyond McKinlock Hall on the river front." With these considerations in mind, the locality most favorable for the new houses is plainly that confined within the proposed boundaries of the second Yard. "A comprehensive plan of development" for this area is the plea of the Student Council, and the basic wisdom of such a plan warrants careful consideration of its practicability...
...Chapel into its calculations the Council has showed, its desire to be as comprehensive as possible. The CRIMSON has pointed out that "the permanence of a Memorial Church demands that it harmonize with the Harvard of the future." With the probable transposition of the three upper classes to the area below Mt. Auburn Street there is a logical argument for a reconsideration of the site of the new Chapel. What promises to be a new center of Harvard life is certainly a suitable setting for the memorial, and furthermore the inviolability of the Yard familiar to generations of past Harvard...
Churches were found closed for want of money to pay a parson. Public houses were boarded up for lack of pennies to buy beer. Miners interviewed repeatedly, said that throughout the Rhondda mining area most families can buy meat not oftener than once a week, seeming to live principally on bread, margarine, tea. At the local Teachers Union an instructor allowed himself to be anonymously quoted thus...
...highly technical position taken by the Bolivian foreign office is that the HONOR OF BOLIVIA demands that Paraguayan blood be spilled, because Paraguayan TROOPS ATTACKED BOLIVIANS (TIME, Dec. 17) in the disputed area of Gran Chaco, a wild and wooded region of over 100,000 square miles...
Brazil is the land of staggering vastitudes. Here grow more trees than in any other country in the world, and most of them are valuable hardwoods. Through illimitable forests flows the stupendous Amazon, largest and second longest river*on the Globe. The 20 United States of Brazil comprise an area greater than that of the 48 United States of North America. Here dwell nearly half the population of South America. To complete the breathtaking catalogue of records, Brazil is the only Portuguese-speaking country in South America and the largest Portuguese-speaking country in the world...