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...relieve the spreading famine in Shantung and Chihli. The "War Lords" have, more over, complete command of the railways and canals, thus increasing the difficulty of getting U. S. food shipments through intact to starving civilian Chinese. In such circumstances famine relief can be only a desperate stop-gap measure, which must try to save simply "as many lives as possible" until China settles down politically, a process sure to require many heart-breaking years...
There is a long gap in the story after this. Then there is a picture, as brief and bright as something dreamed, of a slender, excited boy standing in the centre of a circle of old men. The gloom and whisper of a temple surrounds them, the rustle of wings is in the shadows above them. Then there is a picture of the boy, his face calm and thoughtful now, walking in the weary pageant of a slow, travel-stained procession along a road through the country. Roughly 18 years later the story goes on again. This time...
...elected president of the second largest U. S. national bank, the Chase National,* in Manhattan. He had, they learned with no surprise, begun his financial career by functioning as a runner for $4 weekly. Furnished by newssheets only with this familiar detail, some wondered what filled in the enormous gap; a gap that for many of them had been a canyon never to be crossed...
...Barbee is the only letter man left from last year and the loss of J. D. Leekley '21 and K. D. Dorn '27, the two star forwards on the 1927 team is keenly felt. But reenforcements from last year's Freshman team give promise of successfully filling up the gap caused by losses due to graduation...
...small college whose endowment does not permit sizeable expenditures on the more specialized studies. Under the new plan it will be possible for students at a college which gives no courses in anthropology to study the subject in about the fashion that an undergraduate here does. The gap between high school and college methods of instruction and of subject matter will be in a measure bridged by the preparation of another anthropological film especially adapted for pre-collegiate...