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...sorry appearance of Nanking Theological Seminary astounds the U. S. visitor who has given his mite to Chinese missions. The Seminary consists of five squat buildings on a drab 20-acre campus. Only furnishings are the scant necessities of Chinese existence. But the 46 students (all natives) embellish their lives with potted plants which they carry around the buildings as the sun moves across the heavens...
...motor southwest from Chicago, when you are almost within sight of Joliet, a big sign appears on the right of the highway: STATEVILLE. Behind it rises a broad, bare hill across whose desolate skyline stretches a wall. Above the wall rise four great, drab cheeseboxes. These are the cell blocks of Illinois' model penitentiary. Here, last week, occurred the first major prison riot of the year...
...some 6,000,000 morning and evening papers white-haired, drab-mustached Sir Ernest Willoughby Petter's picture promptly appeared. Said the Rothermere Daily Mail: "Sir Ernest Petter, one of the country's foremost business men, threw a bombshell into official Conservative circles last night...
...beliefs. ... I have . . . painted a landscape and some people?men and women reading the earth under the quandary of the sky." A long novel, many-charactered, Three Steeples gives a broad, detailed, sympathetic picture of the U. S. Middle-Western rural scene. It is serious, ambitious, not as drab as it sounds...
Domesticity is often thought to be drab, is capable of dreary interpretations. In Dr. Serocold (TIME, July 14), Helen Ashton showed how fetching a story she could make of a country doctor's 24 hours; in Mackerel Sky she tackles an even grimmer subject and makes it cheerfully readable...