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...Committee has recognized that what is often most needed is stress on a definite phase of elementary training, such as reading, grammar or composition. Until these fundamentals are instilled in a student, the great value of a survey course is lost. With this in mind, it has rearranged the "groundwork" courses so that every branch of this training will be given in the future, thus permitting men to develop those fields in which they feel weak and to bring their elementary training up to a common level...
...usual bad news last week. Japanese money and arms had induced Mongolian Prince Teh to proclaim an "independent" state in Inner Mongolia bordering the Chinese Great Wall. To the north Mongolian soldiers and Japanese planes forced the surrender of the Mongol city of Changpeh in Chahar Province, laid the groundwork for another independent State bordering the "Autonomous Government of North China" hatched last November by the Japanese Army (TIME. Dec. 2). As Japan chipped away at Generalissimo Chiang's China (see map) it became a matter of pressing importance where lay Chiang's absolute line of resistance short...
...Samuel concluded that failure of The Deal to go through last week far enough to lay a groundwork for further negotiations "makes the position more difficult and dangerous than it was before. ... I believe that, unless these facts are faced and faced in the immediate future, either the League will break up or a most unsatisfactory peace will result from the conflict which is now taking place...
Last September Mr. Littauer broached his offer to President Conant. Under the plan announced last week Mr. Littauer will give Harvard $2,000,000, one quarter for a building, the rest as endowment. To lay the groundwork for the school, Dr. Conant last week appointed a committee headed by a fellow university president, Princeton's Harold Willis Dodds, who was the first chairman of the undergraduate School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton...
...lively, readable, honest, superficial, rich in color, anecdote and detail. Occasionally bumbling in literary style, it lacks coherence, is reflective but not philosophic. No great creative thinker, no intellectual delver into the remote why & wherefore of things, Author Sullivan has laid for future historians of the period an indispensable groundwork of fact and atmosphere. His story of the 1920 Republican NationalConvention, of how Strategist Harry Daugherty prepared the way and Republican elders reluctantly pushed reluctant Warren Harding into the Presidency, is masterly, probably definitive. His account of the Oil Scandals is almost equally thoroughgoing. Though he frankly liked Warren Harding...