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...large, complicated and slow-moving mechanism. Every two years fresh fires have to be started in its cold boilers. Its 531 cogs have to be adjusted into place. The accumulated gases of politics have to be blown out of its chambers. Only after these preliminaries can it proceed to function as the Constitution intends...
...courses of its own, it has to depend on the other three Departments for instruction. These are planned for the students concentrating in them, and not for those needing a more general knowledge. The Bio-chemistry student should cover the basic work in each subject rapidly, and then proceed to advanced courses. But the fundamental courses which he needs are not given so that he can take them consecutively. For instance, in Zoology the three courses which are prerequisite to advanced work are given during the first half of the year. Since the first is necessary for the second...
...seven months later the pilot of a P. A. A. plane flying south from Miami received a radiogram in mid-air to drop his passengers at the nearest station and proceed to Managua, which had just been flattened by an earthquake. Two hours later the Sikorsky was sitting on the shore of Lake Managua, her own radio humming with messages from local authorities. Next morning seven company planes were at the scene. Last September the P. A. A. station at Belize was wrecked by the hurricane and tidal wave which struck the town. In water up to their armpits...
...been viewed as a political triviality on the New York State ballot. Submitted to the people was a proposal to amend the Constitution so that the State might spend some $20,000 over a period of years buying up abandoned farms and denuded lands ad joining State parks, and proceed to reforest them. Governor Roosevelt, Tam many Hall and all New York Republicans supported the proposal on a non-partisan basis. Mr. Smith startled his party by a slashing and repeated attack on the Amendment as a "gold brick" designed only to benefit the lumber and pulp companies which...
...serves to raise the question of just how much fealty the College can justifiably require from an individual outside Hanover walls. To what extent is the individual obligated? To what extremes may the College proceed to maintain a normal tone of decency among these undergraduates who, for the moment, are not clustered under the very flagstaff of the College's banner...