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...wide rivers, crosses mountain passes as high as 7,200 feet, bores into numerous tunnels, connects with no foreign lines. Foreign engineers, not interested in strategy, chuckled that the railway goes from "nowhere to nowhere." This spring Scandinavian engineers were doubling shifts to finish before autumn a 200-mile gap so that His Imperial Majesty can soon ride by rail from his estates on the Caspian to his lands on the Persian Gulf...
...coming session Professor Mather has gathered a brilliant array of teaching talent from all parts of the country, especially in the fields of English, Government and Fine Arts. The concentrator in English can study modern American literature under Professor Hornberger, former editor of the Sewannee Review. This fills a gap in the English Department's program, which is notoriously scornful of American literature produced since 1920. In Government, courses in contemporary diplomatic problems, dealing with the latest crises will be given. The Fine Arts Department is offering an extended tour of the European art centers under the supervision...
...serious gap in the House Plan is its utter disregard for the extra-curricular but still intellectual side of undergraduate life; intramural athletics are strenuously cultivated and social events benignly encouraged, but the task of stimulating thought and discussion in the Houses has been left to very occasional common room orators. As a partial remedy to this oversight, the Debating Council's plan to organize House Debating teams is worth serious consideration...
...French, ouverture means gap. Toussaint took his surname from his ability to create gaps in the enemy lines...
...stickmen are boasting an almost veteran squad from last year's strong team. although the team will severely miss last year's captain Johnny Wither-spoon, who won All-American rating for two successive years, there are several lettermen and Sophomores who may be able to fill the gap left by his graduation...