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...Dental School's imminent need is monetary assistance. Although it is fortunate enough in its ability to draft capable instructors for a pittance, the absence of suitable resources places its present position at an impasse. When the Wyeth Bequest was announced a few months ago, several metropolitan newspapers assumed, seemingly without foundation, that some part of it was to be devoted to the Dental School. Whether or not that is the solution is debatable; at least, the discussion brought into prominence the evidence of the needs of this branch of the University. The modern university, to maintain its position must...
Pacifist Ernest Meyer was an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin when war came to the U. S. in the spring of 1917. On his draft questionnaire he wrote: "I shall refuse . . . all combatant and noncombatant service." The University expelled him. At Camp Taylor he would not wear his uniform, was put under guard with the other conscientious objectors, tried three times, sent to Fort Leavenworth, finally dismissed after the Armistice. Now he works on the editorial staff of the Capital Times, liberal Madison, Wis., newspaper of the La Follette organization...
About to be handed back to China, after 32 years of British tenure, is the lease of Weihaiwei (Way-hi-way) - 285 square miles of free port, walled city, fertile farmland. The draft agreement, last week at Nanking by Britain's experienced envoy, Sir Miles Wedderburn was hailed by optimistic Foreign Minister C. T. Wang as "the first step toward the return of all leased territory China now held by foreigners." (Last month Sir Miles rushed by warship from Shanghai to Lady Lampson's bedside in Hongkong, arrived just before she died.) The snug hill-bound harbor...
...Labeled Proposition Transactionelle Francaise (French basis for bargaining) the Tardieu proposal was handed out to all delegates at a meeting of the "committee of the whole." French expert Rene Massigli, who helped Tardieu draft the P. T. F. (as Tardieu helped Clemenceau draft the Treaty of Versailles), explained that its major points are: 1) The conference should set a maximum total of "global" tonnage of "floating material," up to which each nation would have a theoretical right to build; 2) In striving for agreement as to actual building and ratios the method should be to consider war boats...
Banker Burr and his shares are not the only mystery connected with the Moffat tunnel. Begun in 1923, completed in 1928, the tunnel cost the city of Denver and certain nearby counties $15,470,000 to build. A special ventilating plant (forced draft for eastbound trains, induced draft for westbound) keeps the six-mile stretch clear of smoke. Expensive and well ventilated engineering tour de force though it is, the Moffat tunnel is little used. Few trains go puffing through it because there are no traffic centres beyond it more important than Craig, Oak Creek, Steamboat Springs...