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...some of the general activities. Freshmen again have others specially opened to them, such as the Red Book or class book. But always one must be careful before entering whole-heartedly, into the work of an extra-curricular activity that his regular college work is of a passing grade. Otherwise a few misguided efforts, and the whole castle is sent tumbling...
...real difference in the four-year course comes at the end of the Freshman year at Harvard instead of a year later as in many colleges. By the end of his first year, if not before, the student is expected to be ready to do work of university grade and to work under a tutor...
Just so long as magazines like yours seek to immortalize on their front pages such political miscreants as this Harry Bridges which you name "Labor's Harry Bridges" so long will it be impossible for the country to find high-grade statesmanlike men for its leaders. As an alternative to this policy of exhibiting diseased labor mentalities why not try printing an accurate unbiased descriptio and photograph of some of our famous men whose efforts have been to make America, not destroy...
...Pierre and Marie Curie was laboriously extracted from a radioactive mineral called pitchblende, found in what is now Czechoslovakia. For years those deposits remained the only source of the world supply. Then a radium-bearing ore, carnotite, was discovered in Utah and Colorado. This was a low-grade ore but with the help of the U. S. Bureau of Mines and several corporations, the U. S. became the biggest radium-producing country, at one time turning out 80% of world production. Between 1912 and 1922 the U. S. produced more than 170 grams. In those early days the price ranged...
...veins of pitchblende in the Belgian Congo no less than 20 times richer than the U. S. carnotite. After the War, Belgium's Union Minière du Haut Katanga started mining this material, shipping it to the mother country for refining. The U. S. with its low-grade carnotite could not compete and soon dropped out of the world picture. The Belgian company enjoyed what amounted to a monopoly, producing just enough to fill the demand at its arbitrarily maintained price of $70,000 per gram. Since the medicinal uses of the element were rapidly expanding, grumblings were...