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...well known fact among the student body of the present time that the living conditions in the students' area of Back Bay are far from what they should be; that the living conditions are far from what the faculties of the schools and the parents of the students would like to have them if they were aware of the conditions...
...were put into execution. Although the final decision of the planning board is doubtless the most practicable, there will be many who feel that further extension of the University should be carried on in the territory lying between the Yard and the River, rather than in the already occupied area of the Yard itself. There were doubtless many valid reasons, however, for the rejection of this program in favor of the one now in operation, which those in charge of the physical extension of the University will no doubt publish in the near future...
...Siamese call their country Muang-Thai, which means "country of the free." The system of government is based largely upon that of Britain. Siam lies to the south of China and to the east of India. Its area is 200,148 sq. mi-about four times the size of Pennsylvania...
This summarized the normal British point of view. Of course there are the extreme Imperialists who visualize the Sudan as a great cotton-growing ,area and advocate the development of the country under purely British auspices and in terms far from conciliating to the Egyptians...
...animals may live in peace, amid their natural surroundings, without fear of man. This reserve lies in the northeastern part of the Belgian Congo between Lake Kivu and Uganda. It embraces the three volcanoes of Mount Mikeno, Mount Karissimbi (altitude 13,500 feet) and Mount Visoke, comprising an area of about 250 square miles of high and healthful territory, with a variety of temperatures varying from the mild climate of the plains to the colder atmosphere of the mountain heights. Here our cousin, the gorilla, may live in peace; and the scientists, disarmed, may come and study the living animal...