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...this point, "reasonable men may differ." But there can be no disagreement about the desirability of purely cultural productions like tonight's. Those who remember with regret the blackout of German culture which World War I produced might well show their appreciation to the Modern Language Committee by visiting the U. T. tonight, and there's always Barbara Stanwyck...
Although they agree completely and entirely on the end to be achieved--higher education for able young people from all economic classes--Jim and Aubrey differ, at least at first blush, about the type of scholarship aid which should be provided for the able but needy. Youth Administrator Williams asserts that the student who works to earn some of the costs of his education is happier, learns better work habits, and feels himself more a member of the community, than the boy who is simply given the money he needs, without any productive service being required of him. Replying that...
...lapse was a pardonable one. For the ideas which the National Youth Administrator discussed so ably could hardly have seemed novel or radical to any one who has listened to President Conant's theories of education--or who is at all familiar with what Thomas Jefferson believed. Though they differ on the practical problem of how to pay for that education, Tom, Jim, and Aubrey are in surprising accord when it comes to the kind of schooling and the type of student they think are ideal...
...position. Conveniently developing a sprained foot, he left the front on a doctor's orders, was met" in Odessa by a telegram relieving him of his command. On Dec. 6, 1917, the Finnish Diet declared that region's independence from Russia and Mannerheim started for home. Stories differ as to how he got there. One version says he wore his dress uniform and commandeered a train. Another that he disguised himself as a porter...
...White Terror. Accounts also differ as to the details of General Mannerheim's conduct in Finland's civil war, but the bold outlines are clear. When he reached Helsinki he found the city, and Finland, in chaos. Rioting had been going on since March. A Red Guard had sprung up in support of the Social Democrat Party, which had just lost its majority in the Diet. A White Guard was also being organized around officers of the old Imperial Army, had succeeded in getting arms & ammunition smuggled into the port of Vaasa, on the Gulf of Bothnia. Mannerheim...