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...natural for a young man, upon coming to Harvard from a strange land, to feel that he is an outsider, with few social interests in common with the native students. Unless such an attitude is checked at the start the foreigner will drift along through his college career without ever realizing an important phase of Harvard...
They are to be equipped with full radio apparatus, drift compasss and other instruments of aerial navigation...
...results of their training to a practical test and prove their "raison d'etre" by securing and holding a job. Strange to say, many men, some of them ready to graduate have only the haziest notion of the position for which they are supposed to have been fitting. They drift along fatuously believing that sooner or later they will discover hidden talents and astonish the world...
...China is drifting steadily toward the wretched and tragic goal of final destruction; but, like Turkey, she will take her revenge by being the fulcrum of an international rivalry as bitter as the stakes are large. America can arrest this deadly drift by encouragement of the Chinese toward the rehabilitation of their country. Trouble with China will surely lead to a fight with Japan...
...weather man to the University crews, for today was especially raw, but by strenuous efforts on the part of the oarsmen all danger of freezing has been dispelled. A large bonfire was built yesterday in front of the second University quarters, after several expeditions were made for drift and scrap wood, and this fire proved so popular that it has been kept burning steadily for two days. At present there is plenty of fuel, but it is earnestly hoped that what remains will not have to be used...