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...competition is a problem in landscape design. This year the competitors have been furnished with topographic maps of a given piece of property supposed to be along the Charles River. On the assumption that a benefactor has given money to the Topiarian Club, of which men in the Landscape Architectural School are the members, for a small country club, the plans submitted are to include a garden and an experimental growth of plants, a boat house for canoes, and tennis courts, as well as other arrangements for the pleasure of the members of the club...
...world's history that one nation has voluntarily lent its assistance to another on a question of internal policy. The announcement of the Italian government, therefore, that it will issue no more immigration passports to the United States until this country has to some extent solved the problem if the immigrant, is to be all the more appreciated...
...inevitable under the present over-crowded and kaleidoscopic conditions at Ellis Island and elsewhere. If that is true, Italy has seen and acted wisely. If there is also behind her action a desire to co-operate with the United States, and lend what aid she can in settling the problem, she has acted with commendable friendliness. Whichever is the case, the hard-working immigration officers have at least been granted a welcome respite...
...What we shall do in other parts of the world depends more or less on the success of this experiment. It is not reassuring to discover that conditions in Cuba are such as to warrant talk of intervention for the third time since the island became independent. The financial problem is probably the worst, especially since the moratorium which has existed since last October was extended to February first. Almost as complicated is the election problem. Although the votes were cast in early November nobody knows who is to be the next President. There is much fraud and violence...
...this, of course, is only a feeble glimmer of light on a dark problem. No one expects to find many mighty readers in college. But there ought always to be at least a few in each class. It is their golden opportunity. And there are many who hold, in the midst of the endless discussions of the higher education, that the one thing which colleges may yet do is to teach the boys to read...