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Scientific books will go to the University of Rangoon, whose library was seriously depleted by the Japanese. The College will do well to take advantage of this opportunity to rebuild one of the leading institutions in Asia...
This action came is response to an appeal from the University of Rangoon, which needs scientific texts. Previously only the University of Munich was to receive books, but since Munich's needs are in humanities and social sciences, the two universities will share the collected books according to need...
...Kyaw Nyein, leader of the Socialists who are Burma's biggest political party, said: "We are so disrupted that 300 armed men can take any place except Rangoon itself. In the last two years there is scarcely a town in Burma which has not been seized at least once by rebels of some sort...
...work at the University of Paris, France. Irving G. Fine '37, Assistant Professor of Music, and a member of the Berkshire Music Center, will also go to the University of Paris. John R. King, a post-doctoral student in education, will study at the State Training College for Teachers, Rangoon...
...Rangoon many years ago, according to a Burmese anecdote, a newly arrived and impeccably dressed visitor from Britain presented himself at the house of a Burmese dignitary. He was met by a bevy of lovely Burmese girls carrying bowls of water, who said a few words in their native tongue. Anxious to be agreeable, the Briton nodded, whereupon the maidens deluged him, from topper to spats, with cold water. The master of the house laughed & laughed...