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...final choice is as wise, as it must have been, difficult. "Each in His Generation", by Maxwell Stretchers Burt, published first in Scribbler's Magazine, is undoubtedly and understanding depiction of real people, one that grasps the attention of the reader in sprite of himself. "Contact" by Frances Noyes Hart less certainly deserves its high rating, but, at the same time, the motive that actuated its selection, is clear. It is a story of the spiritualistic outgrowth of the war, highly imaginative, but more than slightly difficult to understand...
Coast Colleges in Contact With World...
...coast colleges have the advantage of rapid communication with the world and enjoy other facilities of western civilization, but they suffer from unfavorable influences which characterize life along the coast in the Levant. The interior colleges are almost free from these influences, are in contact with normal native life, and have an unequalled opportunity for bringing influence to bear upon it directly...
Definitely, the ideal of the college is not to make Americans or semi-Americans, but to train native leaders for the country of their birth. Therefore, instead of attempting to segregate students and impress them with foreign ideals, they are left in contact with their normal environment so that there may be a continual interplay and progressive and natural adjustment between new truth and the old life. The college is content to introduce germinal ideas, expecting them to become dynamic in natural, indigenous ways. It would be of little benefit to Turkey to turn out emigrants to America, men whose...
...percent of the gross product and by the close supervision of exports as a means of levying such taxes. It is evident from the above that the Colombian petroleum deposits are to be developed under concessions granted by the government and the latter is therefore in much closer contact with the exploiting companies than is the case in Mexico where practically all the producing oil wells are located on privately owned land...