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This is the second time this year that Anglo-French correspondence has been published (TIME, Feb. 11). On the present occasion the letters were more specific and not less frank. Premier Macdonald stated that France's maintenance of large military and aerial forces is not understood in Britain; he...
To be specific--which is the delight of Dr. Fitch.--the college youths read "frothy stories". One might comment that Dr. Fitch's adjective was chosen with admirable restraint. And "they are strong on college games, gassip and athletics." This is nothing but pure flattery. It was intended, no doubt...
Another innovation is the designation of the 4 o'clock class as an experimental group in weight reducing. Daily records will be kept, and all the exercise directed with the specific purpose of weight reducing.
The function of a college has been defined as the production of college trained minds, whereas the function of a university is to afford those college-trained minds the opportunity of acquiring a more specific store of actual knowledge. And indeed this analysis seems a fair description of the present...
President Coolidge decided that all plans for the Shenandoah's voyage of Arctic discovery should be dropped until the Congress agrees to make a specific appropriation (variously figured at $180,000 to $500,000).