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...history, and past delinquencies of this and other countries of keeping these defensive arms of our country by land and by sea up to an adequate strength is an even present problem. With a country of one hundred and five million people, with our great sea-front and land area, and wealth, we have the smallest Army proportionally of any other country of importance...
...give students and instructors in American colleges a chance to study in French Universities and to derive the benefits of European travel at the least possible expense. Thee trips will last about ten weeks and will include, besides the regular period of study at the universities, tours of devastated area, theatrical entertainments, trips to points of interest, and many other activities designed for pleasure as well as profit...
Yesterday our excavators made rapid progress toward what appears to be the centre of the University. What promises to be the most interesting discovery to date was made in uncovering a small, well-preserved building on the edge of the area, which had the appearance of an office. Inside, stacked in huge piles along the walls and hanging from the ceiling were bunches of broad leaves of a tropical plant popularly known as elephant's ear. These leaves were tied together by the stems in uniform bunches. They had dried smoothly and lay close together like sheets of paper...
Announcement has also been made by the Department that the old bowling alley area at Hemenway Gymnasium has been converted into four handball couris, and a backstop will be erected between them and the punch-bag platform. These new courts will be closed for the rest of the week to permit their painting, so that they may have better ilumination...
With such small shares of cultivated area they must exploit every inch of ground just as long as they can reap any profit from their efforts, and all means are to be tried in order to produce as much as possible from the small improved land of their holdings. Readers who see the following figures will not be surprised to learn the superior yields produced from Japanese fields as compared with others, if they keep in mind this statement regarding the Japanese farmer. The figures below give the comparative yields in various countries with the average value of the yield...