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...Wells and Bertrand Russell, seeing everywhere harbingers of Western obsolescence, nevertheless resist this unpleasant evidence with faith in the perpetual constructive force of human will & intellect. Oswald Spengler of Munich scorns such precarious optimism as only another instance of the pathetic pride which Romans, Egyptians and Orientals felt at the height of their refulgence...
Naturally War Minister Feng could not resist the temptation to preach his favorite principles, last week, to the new Nationalist Government and to President and Mrs. Chiang Kaishek. Whether the President will hereafter go marketing every day in his armoured Packard car remained to be seen. But the whole Government paid strictest attention as Marshal Feng developed the thesis of Spartan endeavor against a common enemy-JAPAN...
...passionate climax of his address Marshal Feng boomed: "China has 400,000,000 people, yet we cannot resist the bullying of a nation with only a few scores of millions. Japanese Imperialism is comparable only to the ways of wolves and tigers. What with their gunboat policy and their heavy artillery sometimes we are treated worse than dogs...
...Editors of the CRIMSON: I am one of a great number of alumni who deplore the destruction of the goal posts after a victory in the modern way and I should like to suggest that it is quite possible to build goal posts, which will resist the enthusiasts after a game. A grillage of channel beams with steel gussets riveted to the up fights would serve. With engineering in the place of good manners we could have the old march under the goal posts which used to finish the games so handsomely. Kenneth Conant...
...Freshmen Resist Yale Attack...