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...last week over an Extraordinary Tribunal appointed by joint action of both Houses of Parliament to enquire into the circumstances of an examination by police officers at New Scotland Yard of a young woman, aged 22, who is by profession a tester of radio tubes. The motion defining the scope of the Tribunal was drafted jointly by the Attorney General, Sir Thomas Inskip, the Home Secretary, Sir William Joynson-Hicks and Sir John Simon, highest feed British barrister and august Chairman of the Indian Statutory Commission (TIME, Jan. 30). As the Tribunal sat, last week, the small gallery was crammed...
Such a situation in its mass and its incoherence gives food for thought, but not for regret to the graduates of colleges more normal in size and scope. They will be more inclined than ever to hold that mass production is inapplicable to higher education. If only for the reason that the imponderables, the community sense, college loyalty, individual recognition appear to be lost in the crush at an institution whose total registration is greater than the entire population of many a flourishing city. Providence Journal
...enlargement of the Stadium offers little scope for fresh ideas. Yet the time is ripe for an architectural competition, ensuring Harvard of the best plans obtainable in the United States. And the subject is also ready to hand--the new memorial chapel. First "architects' drawings" of this structure caused a storm of protest and ridicule. The site of the new chapel presents in itself a difficult architectural problem, and architects from all over the country should be given their chance to solve...
...Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial was founded in honor of Mr. Rockefeller's wife, who died in 1915. It is international in scope, fostering research in the social sciences, supporting child welfare organizations...
...scarcely dares kiss his wife or buy a shirt without consulting the latest edict on that subject issued by his benevolent government, now impersonated by Mussolini. But for a man with the capacity for government possessed by that dictator, human beings and their actions do not offer sufficient scope for action. From them be now turns to a lesser form of life and decrees the abolition of the common house-fly, a creature that infests Rome no less than any other city. Every citizen will be expected to co-operate and fines will be imposed on those who can report...