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...Marden and his non-legionaire friends join the Legion and lend it their matured thought, their striking dignity and their intense respectability. They cannot destroy entirely the sense of humor that is characteristic of legionaires, and they will learn, among other things, that the Legion has kept faith with the disabled veteran and his dependents, that in its more than 10,000 posts it is giving unselfish aid to communities, states and nation, and that it is a mighty patriotic force that has served and will continue to serve this country well...
Grace Abbott protested stoutly: "To remove the health work from the Children's Bureau would not merely remove one section of the bureau's activities; it would destroy it as a Children's Bureau...
There may be a single kind of bacteriophage which adapts itself to destroy specific germs. Or there may be a particular bacteriophage for each kind of germ. Professor d'Herelle has cured dysentery, he said last week, by feeding sufferers with bacteriophage derived from dysentery bacilli. Special bacteriophage has also been successful against Asiatic cholera, bubonic plague...
...harbor is H. M. S. Europa, whose commander, immediately upon hearing of the accident, declares that a white man has been murdered and demands as restitution a fitting funeral, indemnity, the lives of two members of the boatman's guild. If he is not given satisfaction he will destroy the town. As he threatens, his great grey fortress slides forward and the hard mouths of his guns glower down upon the frightened little sampans below. Terrified, the boatmen draw lots, look on while two of their comrades are strangled. Suddenly one agonized voice cries, "Why are we persecuted...
Apparently there is a concerted movement to destroy military training in our colleges. Whether it has any connection or not we cannot say; but in the current Outlook there appears an article which seeks to undermine what are called "Little West Points." Fortunately, the American people look at these colleges in a different manner from the Outlook writer. They know the value of military training not only for the protection of the country against foreign and domestic enemies, but for the improvement of youthful physique and the development of habits of obedience and discipline. Instead of attacking the colleges which...