Word: needed
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...England have founded a model of the League of Nations in which students, acting as representatives of the various countries, convene to argue and debate. This replica has no power save that of increased knowledge, its dictums settle little beyond friendly controversies, but its activity fills as definite a need as its parent overseas. The generation which fought in 1917 will not live to fight again, but their children may and it is important that they school themselves so they may not. Th League which meets in Wellesley this year should do as much in its limited...
What Correspondent Gilbert did not report was Chairman Fletcher's reply to Mr. Mitchell: "Thanks a lot. But what I'll probably need most is a protector in the rear...
...well to wait and see how the country develops. The seal industry which was once very prosperous is declining, but expansion of the fishing industry is taking up this slack. The people are awakening to a new and more hygienic standard of living but there is still great need of more Danish schools...
Many men of many nations have made many suggestions as to the greatest need of the art world, ranging from state museums and traveling scholarships to compulsory art education and the coming of a second Leonardo. The International Office of Museums of the League of Nations, meeting in Rome last week, decided that one of the greatest would be the invention of anhydrous glue-glue without water...
...Lowell Institute. They will all be on Norse folklore, a subject on which Koht is an authority. He remarked, "Tales of Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, even though they may be a thousand years old are still very popular in Scandinavia. They have a peculiarity in that they need no translation to make them modern. They can be read in their original form, provided the reader has a knowledge of the language, and be easily understood, English translations have been made of them, but I am afraid some of these are poor because the translator made the mistake of using...