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...devastation of northern France, which now seems to be somewhat forgotten, is still a terrible fact. When I last saw the devastated area I was astonished at the amount of reconstruction already completed, but there still remains great areas in ruins. As it is, France has done seven times as much work in the reconstruction as Germany, the aggressor. France has been obliged to borrow enormous sums of money to carry on this work and at the same time pay pensions to the wounded soldiers and their families. To pay the interest and principal on these debts a huge burden...
...newcomer in India receives two ideas of the country--that of size and complexity on the one hand, and of change and crisis on the other. India covers an area as great as the continent of Europe, not including Russia, and if superimposed on the United States, would stretch from Maine to the Carribean and into the Atlantic and Pacific oceans...
This freak bug is not a dominant type. It fades out rapidly and leaves a prolific generation of the authentic black and white variety. The freak may be recognised by a decided tendency to run wild and to cover in area what it lacks in depth-in short, by a total absence of any specific gravity. For this reason it is a welcome visitor to the overburdened college mind...
...exclusion of the two colleges was not due to the standing of the teams, but to the wish to confine the sectional games to a limited area. The location of Pennsylvania State is such that games there would require too much time and expense...
...scientist has made the prediction that our descendants of the ninth or tenth generation will be so crowded into the area of the United States that there will not be space for them all to live comfortably, nor resources to provide them with food. In a few centuries the world will have reached its "saturation point" but by that time of course, we may be in communication with Mars, and if Mars has any room for our excess population we may be able to emigrate to the "new world". But if scientists fall in reach our sister planet by radio...