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...legend of the Lost Tribes has persisted for a great many years. From time to time strange tales come out of the African and South American jungles of wandering explorers, delirious from hunger and thirst, who have stumbled upon communities of fair haired, light skinned Indians, with aquiline Moses and peculiarly clear cut features. Allan Quartermain found them, and so have several others whose reports have never been substantiated. There is always a suspicion of fever, hallucination, or temporary derangement on the part of the eye witness that makes complete belief impossible...
Over 1,000,000 men were affected. Hunger soon showed itself, and the women and children were the first to suffer. Communist agitators were busy urging the miners to seize the mines and hold them until the employers came to terms. Strikebreakers were employed by the mine owners and had a rough time. At Gelsenkirchen 600 maddened miners' wives rushed the Königsgrube Mine to oust the "blacklegs"; the men fled before their terrible onslaught...
...picture painted by Professor Francke and by others who have been abroad recently of German students struggling with poverty, hunger, lack of every kind of equipment and even textbooks, to satisfy an intellectual craving which is not diminished by material hardships is an almost incredible one, from an American point of view. That any one should possess such an unquenchable thirst for knowledge seems strange; that an entire student body should possess it is more than remarkable. Occasionally, it is true, seniors on the verge of graduation feel a faint and indefinable sensation of regret that there are still some...
Bombs, bullets and blood. Disease, dying and dead. Hunger, horror and hell. Such is a description of Tegucigalpa, capital of Honduras, in which Hand a revolution has been in progress more than two months (TIME...
...seem that the College appreciated the undergraduate's desire to get an education. But the existence of such mechanical contrivances as enforced attendance and disciplinary hour examinations would lead one to the belief that the College still considered itself a strong armed compulsory feeder and the undergraduate an intellectual hunger-striker. Moreover the requirements for modern languages still in force prove that the Faculty still considers these languages as hurdles to be leapt--and left behind--in a cross-country race for a degree, rather than as tools to be utilized in the building of a man's mind...