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...faculty today contains too many men who are neither great teachers nor great scholars. The figures whose names once made the University Catalogue read like the roster of a national academy of learning, are fading rapidly into the past, and their successors do not fall gracefully into the heroic molds. The Department of Philosophy is but the most notorious example of a department whose glories lie chiefly in the past. The causes of Harvard's failure to attract many of the best men are not easy to diagnose, but whatever they may be, the undergraduates will wish Mr. Conant success...
Fresh from China by way of the U. S. Navy Medical Corps this month came a vivid surgeon's-eye view of heroic Chinese resistance to the Japanese onslaught which swept down from Manchukuo, entered "China proper" through the Great Wall and stopped just short of Peiping (TIME, May 29, et ante}. Excerpts from the report* of Lieut.-Commander Morton D. Willcutts, M. D., the U. S. Navy's observer at Peiping Base Hospital: "The North China soldier rates a much higher military mark than his reverses of the past few months might indicate. . . . Only those wounded...
...return of the nefarious liquor traffic: but Mrs. Boole and her cohorts are alive to this sinister menace, nor are they daunted by the fact that it has already made such inroads into the morality of the nation. Immediate conditions are, however, pretty appalling and certainly call for heroic measures. A friend of Mrs. Boole's is in fact, ready to testify to the horrendous effect of liquor; it seems that she went to a cocktail party for sixty people at which fifty-eight became "silly drunk"; the only exceptions were Mrs. Boole's friend and her husband, who were...
...legislative in both city and national affairs. Mr. LaGuardia has demanded what amounts to dictatorial power over the finances of the city of New York, and it seems extremely likely that he will get it, for the credit of the city is in such a sad state that heroic measures must be resorted to in order to save...
...National Association of Manufacturers in Manhattan three weeks ago, Man of the Year Johnson, wearing a hard-boiled shirt and expression, even quoted from Tennyson's "Maud" a bit of heroic verse to achieve the desired effect upon his audience...