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...Great Britain, India and other Non-Self-Governing Lands; 2) Canada; 3) Australia; 4) New Zealand; 5) South Africa; 6) Newfoundland; 7) Irish Free State; 8) Southern Rhodesia. Southern Rhodesians hotly maintain that since they are a "self-governing colony" they have the equivalent of "dominion status," but Southern Rhodesia is not in the strictest sense a dominion. Scarcely any U. S. citizens and not many Mother Countrymen can bound Southern Rhodesia which lies 100 mi. inland, from the cast coast of Africa opposite Madagascar. It is bounded on the East by Portugese East Africa (Mozambique), on the South...
Unlike Transamerican, which sent Pilot Parker D. ("Shorty") Cramer and a radioman to fly the proposed route?and lost them?Pan American did not equip its expeditions with aircraft. For a year they will study weather, hunt for landing fields. Watkins' party will maintain two bases about 70 mi. apart near Angamagsalik, just south of the Arctic Circle. The Michigan group, which is associated with the International Polar Year research, will make its main camp about 100 mi. above Uperniski, several hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle. It will forge across the interior of the Greenland...
...Kept secret until last week, this committee's report deplores progressive weakening since 1908, when the bishops called birth control "demoralizing . . . hostile," and 1914, when it was "dangerous . . . sinful." Courteously the report notes that the bishops were careful to affirm the indissolubility of marriage, "but less careful to maintain the consequences of the principle." Accordingly the Lower House committee tightens up. Not only should divorced persons be denied remarriage in the church, says the report, but also they should be denied Holy Communion-even the innocent person in a divorce for adultery...
Personal interests would logically prefer to maintain the former situation under which the capitalistic minority reaped the greatest profits from economic activities and the masses got crumbs hardly sufficient to feed themselves and continue to work...
...heights which Mother Advocate sometimes reaches. There is a real need for a magazine which is not first literary, but first Harvard, which can publish controversial articles, such as are present rarely attempted, and which can, because it does not depend on poetry and fiction for all its material, maintain a consistently high standard for the poetry and fiction which it does print. For the Advocate editors to do this would be doubly difficult. They would have to ignore custom and habit, and build up a new reputation, perhaps losing much that is good in their old reputation. However, there...