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...relating to Prohibition. ... I would add to these recommendations the desirability of reorganizing the various services engaged in the prevention of smuggling into one Border Patrol under the Coast Guard. ... It is not to be expected that any criminal law will ever be fully enforced as long as criminals exist. . . . The District of Columbia should be the model of city law enforcement in the nation. Conditions here ... are far from perfect...
...instituted, will have an immediate and important effect on all the undergraduate social organizations at Harvard. It seems everyone is agreed that the outlook for the fraternities and clubs is serious, not to say alarming. It would be desirable to know what attitude the administration will adopt towards the existence of so many organizations, and what steps will be taken to guarantee these organizations an opportunity to continue to function and exist...
...galactic system not oftener than once in a thousand million years. The actual collision of two stars would be a much more uncommon occurrence. Even so, however, since the astronomer measures time in terms of ten millions of millions of years, it is probable that many planetary systems exist throughout our galaxy and the innumerable other galaxies that are strewn throughout space...
...hooks groped for the cables on the sea floor. Healthy, temperate mechanics- spliced the broken wires to restore the intercourse of the hemispheres. Every half minute an earthquake occurs somewhere on earth. Great ones powerful enough to destroy towns happen about four times a year. Two especially sensitive zones exist: i) along the almost continuous stretch of the Alps, Caucasus and Himalaya mountains; 2) along the whole mountainous circle of the Pacific. Often shaken Italy is in the first zone, California and Japan in the second. Eastern North America, along the Appalachian chain goes through a noticeable, but usually harmless...
...Bell foresees a "reconstruction of the American educational system whereby small, independent colleges will cease to exist, and their places will be taken by like institutions banded together through universities." He further stated that Harvard was one of three other universities working toward conserving "the values of the American college that once was, with all the magnificent values of the great modern university-college, in that it is experimenting with a plan through which students live in groups with scholars, but receive university classroom instruction...