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...space permitted it would be of interest to tell the story of the operations of these peppery little chasers; some of their exploits were highly dramatic. To cite but a couple of these: The destroyer Parker, in command of Commander Wilson Brown, with a group of three subchasers, located by means of their listening devices, a submarine away out at sea west of Brest and traced her so successfully that the Parker was able to drop a barrage of sixteen depth bombs around her, injuring her so severely that she was obliged to return to port. This was the famous...
...have always been in favor of the League, and am much encouraged after seeeing it in action. In point of fact the League is by far the greatest charitable organization that has ever existed on the face of the earth. No other, to cite one phase alone, has repatriated half a million prisoners of war! On its political side, it has prevented several wars, and is working towards disarmament by slow practical steps, to say nothing of having set up the first and only effective World Court...
...against this and other selective-process programmes of college Presidents it is agreeable to cite the objections of Acting Provost Penniman of the University of Pennsylvania to the "un-American policy", of adopting "a method of selecting candidates which in any way violates the principles laid down in the Declaration of Independence or the rights of American citizens as guaranteed by the Constitution". It is a serious thing, as he says, "to shut the door in the face of the eager, aspiring, earnest youth who has set his heart on coming to college...
...fired with a peculiar zeal, were set down before the footlights with the injunction: "Pick out for us what is salacious, and discard it; being careful not to disturb that which is true art and literature, even though it deal with subjects that are immoral"? As we might cite the criticism that fell upon the head of W. L. George, author of "Caliban...
...While students for the ministry, medicine, law, and the teaching profession have long found preparation at college, the modern university -- the state university in particular -- has added to its other activities a score of quasi-technical fields unthought of a century ago. The sciences, business, engineering, and agriculture, to cite a few examples, have now been accorded a place in academic life; the industries are drawing upon the university for laboratory-research men, for construction experts, and business managers. More and more emphasis is being placed upon work which can be reckoned as so much bread and butter...