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...Adopted resolutions appropriating $587,500 to combat pink bollworms in Arizona, authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to spend $2,500,000 to compensate quarantined cotton growers...
...perennial gladiatorial combat at Harvard between the proponents and opponents of research versus teaching, the debate rarely turns toward the pith of the controversy, namely the balance of research and development in the individual student. As a theory the whole question of the relative importance of research and teaching is debatable but since the Harvard attitude attaches significance to both these phases of education, a corresponding amount of attention must be paid to the influence of both teaching and research on the development of the student who seeks a reason for four years at college...
...lecture entitled "How the British Q Boats Fought the German Submarines" and illustrated by stereopticon slides, Campbell will give a vivid description of the most ingenious of the methods employed by the British Admiralty to combat the submarine menace. The Q boats, merchant vessels armed with concealed guns and making every effort to be torpedoed, decoyed twelve German submarines to destruction. As commander of the first of these novel units in the British Navy and later of several others. Admiral Campbell accounted for four of the enemy's deadly underwater crafts, which in April 1917 were so depleting British tonnage...
Challenge of Youth is a new and nauseating development of the ordeal by sex-problem. A professor's daughter in a small New England college town joins her friends in a league to combat the moral vigilance of their elders. Shortly thereafter her father inadvertently opens a door leading out of the front parlor and discovers her in the processes of sin. By the end of the play he feels he understands her better, has made a less romantic, more reasonable adjustment to life...
...Combat began when Democrat Ransdell leaped to the Republican breastworks with a mighty harangue on the "absolute necessity" of sugar protection (for Louisiana). Senator Vandenberg followed this up with a devastating gas attack of statistics to show Michigan's need for a higher sugar duty. Senator Smoot, his heart beating fast for the beet-growers of Utah, delivered an impassioned attack upon the National City Bank of New York. Likewise he smote the "American pop industry" and U. S. chocolate manufacturers with large Cuban sugar properties...