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Tough Mr-Mollison. A Gipsy-Moth biplane plunked sloppily down upon the gravel beach at Pevensey Bay, England, tipped up on end, flopped back on its haunches and rested. Out of the cockpit crawled a haggard Scotsman, one James A. Mollison, 25, to respond fully to the questions of an excited little crowd. Eight days and 21 hrs. prior he had left Australia, 10,000 mi. away. Every day he had forced his small plane along to the limit of his own endurance, sleeping an average of two hours each night. Night before he had taken off from Rome into...
...that Jean Henri Dunant published in 1862 a booklet, Un Souvenir de Solferino, lamenting the carnage of Italy's war against Austria, urging the formation of volunteer societies to remove wounded men from battlefields, hoping all military leaders would "agree upon some sacred international principle." First to respond was President Gustave Moynier of Societe Genevoise d'UtilitéPublique, who organ- ized an international meeting at Geneva in 1863 where international Red Cross principles were formulated. Next year was held a diplomatic conference with 26 Governments represented. Here was drafted the Geneva Convention, here adopted the red-crossed...
...Given the necessary guarantees which capital must have, we feel, therefore, that it is the duty of the French market to respond to these demands from abroad for long-term credits, and we remain convinced that the facilitating of these credit operations at present constitutes, as it did before the War, a normal outlet for the excess of French capital...
...remarkable growth in exchange fellowships since the World War is a healthy sign that education is tending to become more internationalized. Doubtless the struggle had a great effect in awakening Americans to an interest in foreign institutions, and other nations have not been slow to respond. Already well over 1,500 traveling scholarships are awarded annually by student exchange agencies...
...more flagrant instances of the failure of the above classes to respond need be cited to illustrate this point than the two occuring within the past two weeks. The Athletic Council wisely revised the rules for managerial competition last year, making these competitions less arduous and more simple for the non-fraternity men at the same time. The council hoped by doing this to stimulate interests.... its roward last week was a handful of Sophomores in answer to its request. The Musical Clubs at the same time announced a competition leading directly to the position of Assistant Manager...