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...party claims an altitude of 28,150 ft. They rank it next to Everest, world's undisputed highest. In this they differ with the Royal Geographical Society, which ranks K2 (Godwin-Austen)' second with its 28,250 ft., Kanchenjunga third. To negotiate this frigid, wind-beaten giant they will establish six camps spaced along the peak's last 10,000 ft. Husky Sherpas porters will strap 68 Ib. packs on their broad shoulders, grease their faces to ward off the erosive wind, fight their way upward through the rare air a few feet at a time over the ice steps...
...college of the liberal arts. The study in this field must necessarily be limited when pursued as an undergraduate and so could hardly be considered as a substitute for business or night school. Furthermore, the college is primarily intended to provide a broad cultural basis on which to establish the later specialized life work. Through too stern devotion to accounting, banking, and trade, the university man is liable to lose the other intellectual benefits which are, in the main, the important factors in the value of a college education as opposed to a technical one. It is a cause...
...Association of Schools & Departments of Journalism, only five are not state colleges. Announced last week was the first endowment of journalistic lectures among the older Eastern private schools. Publisher Paul Block of the Brooklyn Standard Union* gave Yale $100,000 with which to employ a lecturer or lecturers to "establish a program of studies in the graduate and undergraduate schools to trace the relation of the newspaper Press to modern affairs. This plan does not contemplate the development of courses of a vocational nature, but it is expected to bring the students . . . to a clearer understanding of the role...
...ideals, to forms more sutable for competition in an industrial age. Force alone cannot hold together a country as wide-spread and as poorly provided with means of transportation as China; a fact amply proved by the failure of any of the generals who have made the bid to establish a secure government during the decades just passed. So the progress of the Revolution has really been the story of a search for a code of political ideals that would win the moral support of the people...
...Secretary of War, was selected by President Hoover (TIME, Dec. 16). A question immediately arose: who could fill the vacated Assistant Secretaryship? From that post Dwight Filley Davis had gone into the Cabinet succeeding the late Secretary of War John Wingate Weeks; Mr. Hurley's elevation seemed to establish the precedent that War Department assistant secretaries are full secretaries in embryo. So, for five months the President of the U. S. weighed carefully the qualifications of candidates. Last week he sent his choice to the Senate: Frederick Huff Payne, Lieut. Colonel in the Ordnance Reserve Corps, Board Chairman...