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...reason that young men come to the age of eighteen with minds less trained than their contemporaries in Europe is to be found chiefly in the fact that they begin their schooling later, and in the early years proceed less rapidly. Masters of secondary schools have often asserted that they could prepare boys for college earlier if sent to them younger, and there can be no doubt that boys would be prepared earlier if there were a demand for it. But although a feeling appears to be gaining ground that education is finished at too advanced...
...Kestrel, based at New London, when we received orders to proceed to Block Island. There we carried the Commandant of the Second Naval District, Captain Bryan (?), out to the Texas which was surprisingly close to the shore. For the next few days, armed with our "formidable" Three-Pounder, we patrolled the waters-or, as an Army friend put it, we "kept ourselves safe for democracy...
...Onetime Soviet Ambassador to Paris Christian Rakovsky; 3) Leading Soviet Propagandist Karl Radek. These and their immediate followers were sent away to individual exile in separate, widely dispersed towns of Asiatic Russia. Trotsky was scheduled to speed by rail from Moscow across European Russia, traverse the broad Volga, proceed again by rail through the steppes of Kirghiz and to the end of the line in the mountains of Turkestan. Thence he would pass by caravan over more mountains and steppes to remote Vyernyi, topping the uplands of Semirechensk, and distant some 150 miles from the Chinese frontier, 1,800 miles...
...part of the work of housing married students in the University, the Harvard Housing Trust has just authorized their architects, Kilham, Hopkins, and Greeley to proceed with the final plans for a new group of three buildings, which will contain approximately 30 apartments. The new buildings are being constructed primarily to meet the increased demand by graduate students for smaller apartments...
...interesting, also to see what he writers of our "purpose" on earth: as to the ultimate purpose of human existence, he is at a loss, though he does say that Science, far from eliminating the supreme Life-giver, tries to proceed hand in hand with Him. "Is it reasonable to regard a painting as nothing but paint and canvas, a poem or mathematical proposition as nothing but ink and paper...