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...foggy evening in 1900, a tough barge rat from Haverstraw, N. Y., marvels, as always, at the changing masses of Manhattan's skyline seen from the North River. "Gee," he says. "Gee!" He can neither read nor write. He is 16; name, John Breen; parents, a once-pretty Irish servant and someone other than the grimy bargee she calls their "old man." Entering the East River, in thickening fog and greasy tide-rips, the barge is rammed. Loaded with bricks ("the city's red corpuscles") it plunges under. John Breen struggles out of the greenish-black water to a Manhattan...
That most faithful servant of education, the Boston Transcript, last week published its annual survey of 86 colleges and universities whose condition may be safely regarded as typical of all the 780 institutions of higher learning in the U. S. It was with something between pride and bewilderment that the Transcript had to report...
Alabama. Governor-elect Bibb Graves shares the office of Governor William W. Brandon, famed poker player with a faithful Negro servant (TIME, Dec. 6), for the 20 days preceding the inauguration on Jan. 17. They both wish to watch the legislature's special session. Never before has Alabama had sharing Governors...
Luther. President von Hindenburg took the sensible course of biding his time before choosing a new Chancellor, and cabled stolid, pink-faced, sterling public servant, onetime Chancellor Hans Luther, to return by the first boat from Buenos Aires where he has been vacationing. Dr. Luther has been the outstanding Finance Minister of Germany since the War in numerous Cabinets;* and he held together a cabinet of his own during almost the whole of 1925, forming, another which lasted from January to May, 1926. A ponderous German "crisis" which may last for weeks or months before a new Chancellor is chosen...
ADVENTURES ON THE BORDERLAND OF ETHICS-Richard C. Cabot, M. D. -Harper ($2). Professor Cabot of Social Ethics at Harvard, as sincere a servant as ever stood before the Lord and his fellows, some years ago gave a thoughtful public something to chew on in What Men Live By (1914). He now proposes the study of Ethics (a word more inclusive and less suspect than Morals) by toilers in various vine-yards-Theology, Medicine, Business, Education, Social Work...