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...This year the Famine Dragon is dry. He came last summer in the likeness of a burning drought and accompanied by a pest of locusts. Result: crop yields have fallen to 25% of normal in 65 of the 407 districts of Shantung. A similar dry famine in North China brought Death to 500,000 in 1920-21, and rendered 20,000,000 destitute...
...gaining ground that education is finished at too advanced an age, yet a considerable number of parents whose sons are prepared for college and pass their admission examination at 17, postpone their entrance for a year. This is almost always a mistake. The youth is taken out of the normal current of his life to do something else, and does not usually regain his pace. Statistics covering a number of years, show that the students who enter college young are on the average better scholars and incur less serious discipline than those who are older. No doubt this...
...purpose, and with the provision of Freshman Halls, we are paying far more personal attention to the Freshmen than ever before, and are constantly doing so to a larger extent, with the result that parents need not worry about sending their sons at 17. For the boys of normal maturity to come at that age and graduate at 21 would be better for the whole body of students
...Waistlines rising perceptibly toward the normal waist...
...CRIMSON, adds his share. And more than a possible misapplication of Harvard's latest educational experiment would seem to have been avoided. Fears that all Harvard would migrate to more agreeable climes have been pretty well blasted by the crowded condition of the Library and the very normal term-time appearance of the Square; Boston hostesses and Yard cops will testify that things have been "quiet" in a social way; and the bootleggers have been heard to complain of the lack of conviviality registered at the University...