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...Roan Antelope is a comparatively small source of profit to the territorial Government of Northern Rhodesia. The Government, getting most of its revenue from income tax, native taxes, customs stamps and licenses, is actually poor. For that reason Northern Rhodesia's executive council lately raised the native poll tax from 10 to 15 shillings. For black Roan workmen, who cannot quit during their contract term, that was the last straw. Last week they went on strike, first at Mufulira, then at Nkana, then at Roan Antelope itself at Luanshya. The 10,000 white Britons on the savannah...
Screamed a headline in the Yale News last week: YALE SEETHING WITH COMMUNISTS -73% RED - COLLEGE-WIDE POLL FAVORS REVOLUTION...
...estimated between 10,000 and 200,000 on the main island of Luzon. Four years ago Benigno Ramos began organizing the Sak-dalistas after Manuel Quezon fired him from the job of clerk of the Philippine Senate. Ramos' platform was calculated to appeal to poor malcontents: abolition of poll and land taxes, better roads, more schools, shared wealth. Significance of the Sakdal party name was its bitter opposition to the "favoritism and corruption" of Boss Quezon's dominant Nationalist party. Evidently last week's uprising was chiefly calculated as a demonstration against the May 14 Constitution plebiscite...
While it is true that the Poll revealed no pronounced antipathy to the lecture system, the recommendation for increased emphasis on tutorial work represents a trend which has become increasingly noticeable at Harvard. It is a matter for speculation how long it will be necessary to wait for the logical corollary of this trend--fewer lecture courses, accompanied by vastly more than the present emphasis on lectures which stimulate as well as instruct. But when prosperity is once more upon us--when the Blue Eagle's head is hidden, ostrich-like, in the sand, when Hour Exams have been abolished...
Among the many suggestions for the improvement of the lecture system put forth by the Seniors in response to the recent CRIMSON lecture poll was a request that less material readily accessible to the student in textbooks be rehashed in the lectures themselves, and that the delivery of most of the lecturers must be improved if the system is to justify itself. In line with the latter suggestion, several students suggested a compulsory public speaking course for all lecturers...