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Last week Canadians and Labradorians jabbered so widely and intensively over the new settlement that one Rabbi Isaac de la Penha of Montreal rose up and told the press that a quarter of Labrador belongs to him by an ancient royal grant which he cited glibly but was unable to produce...
...then becomes of Main Street, Mr. Babbitt, and even Sinclair Lewis. With all its flummery and posing the joining spirit of contemporary America must have in it a deeper and more fundamental element. Dartmouth debaters travel New Hampshire to clash before business men's clubs on the International Debt Settlement. Rotary sends students for study in Europe. All this surely signifies something good and highly worth-while. The much abused American business organizations will certainly bear watching...
...meticulous and widely quoted correspondent of the New York Times cabled a moving story: "A Chinese widow whose livelihood depends on a small flower shop in Bubbling Well Road, Shanghai, had one son, aged 14, who used a bicycle to deliver flowers to foreign residences outside the settlement. The boy was returning home when he picked up a poster, and was seized by soldiers and his head cut off instantly. Today the mother when she learned of it was prostrated with grief...
Adolf Frank Reel '28 of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, speaking on the affirmative side of the question, "Resolved: That the Acceptance of the Franco-American Debt Settlement is to the Best Interests of France" last night was awarded the Pasteur Debute medal...
...policy as that inaugurated by the Overseers, we will have to wait. Probably much will have to be done in organizing public opinion and in educating response before such proof can even be looked for. It is undeniable that the student has certain things to contribute to discussion and settlement of these problems, a keen and vital interest, a different approach, and a unique pertinence and relevancy of include. The administrators of Harvard University are to be congratulated on recognizing the value of these things and on having established the one policy which will make it even greater...