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Germany. At Cologne the Rhine reached the highest flood mark in a century, 30 feet 4 inches above normal, and ferries always kept in reserve were totally unable to cope with the utter breakdown of transportation. The onetime U. S. Army of Occupation Headquarters at Coblentz was inundated by 20 feet of water. The statue of Wilhelm der Zweite atop the great Hohenzollern Bridge over the Rhine looked out upon a seemingly limitless dirt-yellow sea, which churned over vast areas of the Rhine valley...
...play in case anyone still intends going. A young debutante has just written a play. The play is called "As He Thinketh." Delightfully complicating, these plays within plays. All the cats wonder how she could have written it. But since she wrote it while recovering from a nervous breakdown, the audience is given to understand that that explains everything, for anything may happen in a nervous breakdown. Then, when the author has firmly established the nervous breakdown, the successful play, the handsome young nerve specialist, and the thoughtless young lady, in stalks mental telepathy. It comes in in the person...
There is a little county seat in New Jersey called Mays Landing. It was 26 years ago that a Negro working his way through a western university had a nervous breakdown. So he gave up his education and went to Mays Landing where he opened a barber shop. Business was good. After a time he abandoned the barber shop to continue as a tradesman in tobacco, candy and other small goods. Nobody paid much attention to him. He was practically the only Negro in town. He did not go to Church, in fact he said he was not a Christian...
Cried the Westminister Gazette, unintentionally pat, "Don't stare at the Prince of Wales"; continued with an editorial in which Britons were urged to safeguard the Prince from serious risk of a breakdown by "respecting his privacy...
...CRIMSON believes that the prominence which discussions of education hold in current magazines and newspapers is largely due to the breakdown of religion. Universities, at first founded as adjuncts to the Church, now stand alone, with the Church exercising only a slight shadow of its former influence over the lives of men. This situation requires that Universities readjust themselves to the needs of the times and accept the full burden of that which formerly fell upon them only in part--of preparing men to live. To accomplish this readjustment at Harvard the best thought of the best minds, must...