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...common-sensical Premier Sjahrir. "On Indonesia," said Sjahrir to his people, "we are lighting a small torch, the torch of humanity. Let us take care of it. Let us hope it will mark the beginning of lightness all over the world." Five days later he left for the Inter-Asian Conference at Delhi. At the Hague, two hours after the pact was signed, a newly convened Parliament promptly ratified it by a vote...
Ancient Delhi, a seat of Asiatic culture a dozen centuries before Christianity, had never seen anything quite like the Inter-Asian Relations Conference. For the first time in history, Asians representing half the world's people came together under Asiatic sponsorship. The 200 delegates, from 30-odd countries and colonial territories, made an impressive spectacle. There were tiny, sloe-eyed Indonesian women in batiked lungis and husky Nepalese soldiers in rich blue brocade, bejeweled princesses, fez-topped Arabs, and lamas from Tibet in long crimson kimonos, their hair done in braids and their ears weighted with blue stone ornaments...
Behind them the gates opened and hundreds of Indians and others swarmed in to see the show-perhaps the last full dress panoply of the British Raj. Among the spectators were many delegates from the 32-nation Inter-Asian Relations Conference ; many of them had wishful reasons of their own for wanting to be in a final rite of British rule...
These contests are being held as events in an inter-House forensic league that has been established under the auspices of the Debate Council...
...Westfield, while coaching various Jayvee and Freshman teams in the three sports in which he excelled. His outstanding and probably his most permanent mark on the local athletic scene, however, was made in 1927, when he submitted a plan for intramural athletics, which then were run off on an inter-class basis and were relatively unorganized. His program was accepted and used until 1930, when Dunster and Lowell produced House teams to supersede the class competition. The following year the five other Houses entered the field, and Sam drew up plans for the first full season of inter-House athletics...