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Missionary E. P. Ashcraft wrote from Chengchow in September: "At the mission a few days ago six children were tied to a tree by their parents so they would not follow them as they went in search of food. One mother with a baby and two older children, tired from the long search for food, sat down to rest under the tree. She sent the two older children to the village ahead to beg a little food. When they returned the mother had died of starvation and the baby was still trying to nurse at her breast. These are just...
...passed the doorway of Holden Chapel, with its white and black sign proclaiming the transformation to a "U.S. Navy Storeroom," he looked up to note half a dozen tots and their mamas mounting the steps of PBH. "These freshmen are really getting young," he commented to himself, in search of an inward chuckle...
...this would be a far better reason for closing the traditional home of Freshman History, Government and Economics studying than any they have to offer. Boylston Reading Room was closed when its head librarian got drafted at the beginning of the second session of Summer School. Now, rather than search too vigorously for a substitute, library officials are limping along on a make-shift summer arrangement that is unable to support the nearly normal enrollment in the College and in these social sciences. While assimilating the values of using a large university's research library, Freshmen are wasting time getting...
When His Highness the Maharaja of Kolhapur died two years ago he left no son. A search was begun for a suitable heir-apparent to rule some day over the million inhabitants of the little State. At length a ten-year-old boy who was named Pratap Singh Rao Bhonsle was chosen, and plans were immediately laid for the elaborate ceremonies of adoption. The Maharani of Kolhapur consulted with her astrologers and learned that the proper time for the rites was indubitably the 28th of September. The Government of India was informed of this, and agreed, and said...
Petroleum Coordinator Harold Ickes-who is one Washington bigwig businessmen can talk sense to-agreed on this point, told committeemen, "We must take every possible measure to stimulate the search for new oil reserves. . . . The price situation might well be reviewed...