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Precocious U. S. tots, keen students of geography, might have nonplussed their parents last week by "bounding" Great Lebanon as follows: "North, the Nahr-el-Kebir; south, the frontier of Palestine; west, the Mediterranean coast; east, the heights of anti-Lebanon." Super-tots lisped that Beirut is the seat of government; that the population was 628,863 at last reports; that cedars have given the country universal fame...
...meeting, four new Harvard Clubs were admitted to the Association. These are the Harvard Clubs of Miami, of the West Coast of Florida, of Norman, Oklahoma, and of Shanghai, China. There are now 123 Harvard Clubs in the Association...
...often on the lips of Caucasian alarmists. The external formidability of Japan and the obvious straights of her population, so pent within narrow islands, have given her, in the words of social prophets a predatory future. They have seen the damn erected against the yellow millions by the coast states of America as only a truce and postponement of the inevitable inundation. The actuality of these dismal prospects is for scholars of the subject to ascertain. But a bit of recent news from Asia suggests that the armor of the east rings a bit hollow, that Mongolia and Siberia will...
...Italian, Norwegian, U. S.) sticking up at the top of the world on iron-pointed staves dropped into the ice- but not so much as a rocky islet had arisen out of the vast Polar Sea. Disappointed yet jubilant they had flown past Point Barrow, on down the Alaskan coast for 700 miles, and alighted...
Harvard, therefore, cannot give her all to the preparatory schools of the East or to the ghettos of Eastern cities Coming from the plains of the Middle West and the Pacific Coast, from all parts of the country are boys in whom rests what promise the country has of fulfilling her purpose as a modern nation. All of these must be fitted for the task of intelligent and adequate citizenship in a modern state. Thus the traditions which are completely of New England to so much as they are necessary to strengthen and illumine the lives and minds of those...