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...Impertinence, etc." To this "irresistibly attractive" spiel, the British Foreign Office did not respond like a German election crowd. It looked in vain for one "positive" amelioration of the fact that after all Hitler had violated two international treaties when his soldiers marched into the Rhineland. Foreign Secretary Eden read the document's 3,000 words through carefully, listened to Ambassador von Ribbentrop's further remarks and strode to No. 10 Downing Street where waited the British Cabinet...
Deprive a man of food for three days and he will respond biologically. Then give him a chance to steal a loaf of bread and he will respond culturally. But where biology stops and culture begins is a question over which sociologists, psychologists and anthropologists have quarreled long & loud. In essence their dispute is the ancient one of Nature v. Nurture, of Instinct v. Conditioning, of Heredity v. Environment. Dr. Gordon Willard Allport of Harvard feels that there have been too few concrete demonstrations of how much truth there is on each side. Such a demonstration he published last week...
...Association was fresh from the rich New York City suburb of Bronxville, where he superintended a model school system operating at an annual cost of $233 per student. His appointment as Director of Indian Education indicated a new attempt to develop some sort of education to which Indians will respond. When the U. S. Government first turned from shooting Indians to educating them, it hoped to accomplish their gradual assimilation in white communities. In 1879 General Richard Henry Pratt (who once proposed apportioning the Indians, like so many marbles, nine to each county in the U. S.) founded Carlisle School...
Another cold weather problem, the explanation of why it is that plants growing under apparently similar conditions and close together respond differently to the effects of a severely cold winter, has been solved at the Arboretum, Professor Ames said. Temperatures were recorded from autumn until spring at selected points in the Arboretum and it was found that variations of as much as twelve degrees Fahenheit occurred in adjacent at the same hour, showing clearly why plants growing in these various spots were differently affected by the weather...
...happy to respond to the managing editor's request for a comment upon Harvard's three hundredth anniversary program recently announced in the press...