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...governmental guarantee of 6 percent interest upon the capital invested by its farmers. I must emphasize the fact that it was only because of this 6 percent guarantee that an increase in the amount of arable land has been brought about since then, and that since 1906, the cultivated area has been practically at a standstill...
Roughly speaking, the population of Japan is estimated at about 57,000,000 with a total area of 140,000,000 square miles, of which about 15,000,000 acres are supposed to be used for cultivation. For the purpose of illustration let us take the United States for comparison. The relative density of population in the two countries is as follows: U. S. Japan. Inhabitants per square mile, 26.6 206 Inhabitants per square mile of improved land...
...between Kansas City and Boston on tours that new him at least six college degrees. Many an aspirant for a single diploma fails to gain an ounce, no matter how violently he may specialize in egg-nogs and carbohydrates, just because he runs about in an area bounded by Jarvis Field and the Charles River...
...Base Hospital No. 5, a unit composed of Harvard men. Very soon after the United States declared war the hospital was established at Dannes only a few miles behind the front line trenches. Private Tugo was killed the night of September 4, 1917, when a Gotha swept over the area and dropped seven bombs, five of which were direct hits on the hospital compound...
...hours and a half in only two hours and a half in order to allow time for athletics. At the end of the season, all-regimental teams were made up in base-ball, track, and tennis to play teams representing the Infantry R. O. T. C. Camp whose area was about a mile away. R. L. Conrod '21 was the only University man to qualify for one of the teams. He, however, won the camp pole-vault championship in the inter-battery track meet...