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...years ago Marshal Wu went into the bleak, howling wilderness of Tibet (TIME, April, 16, 1928). There in a monastery perched on a mountain crag he composed a tome of Buddhist poems, painting each character daintily with his artful brush. This scholarly job done and his Fatherland being still stricken by famine, pestilence and war, sedate Scholar Wu buckled on again the sword of a Marshal, returned from lonely Tibet to overcrowded China and today looms potently upon the scene. Equally to President Chiang Kai-shek of China and to Marshal Wu was addressed last week a most amazing telegram...
Under present conditions, ambitions students are afforded the opportunity for a thorough education, while the lectsurely man finds little difficulty in ekeing out the required minimum marks. Despite the attractiveness of added remuneration from a wealthy upper stratum those who suggest panaceas for stricken budgets should consider that a university ought primarily to maintain its scholastic standard. The proposal of the Graduate's Magazine, if adopted, would injure the University's reputation and attract a group sure to be stagnant and barren of any real worth other than financial...
...better to do, attempt to befriend some dear old things downstairs. In the course of their philanthropy they have the daughter of the family packed off to Canada. She departs brokenhearted. They also arrange an operation for the invalid mother. She dies. The father (venerable 0. P. Heggie), mortally stricken by the heartless kindness of his neighbors, is left to face his future empty-handed and alone...
...squad will be without the services of a high jumper as Kuehn is nursing an injured ankle and the other Harvard jumpers cannot measure up to I.C.4A competition. At the last moment Dean, who was entered in the shot put, was stricken from the list to make way for Bennett in the pole vault. Pescosolido had only a slight edge over his running mate, Porter, in the dash selections...
...such an eyeglass that their late great father, the elegant, hawk-nosed Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914) kept firmly screwed in his face all through his long and distinguished parliamentary career. It was exactly such a tariff program, right down to the 10% basic rate, that he fought for until stricken with paralysis in his jist year. In tribute to "Old Joe," as his Birmingham constituents fondly called him, all Conservative members of the House rose from their seats when his boy Neville finished speaking. They faced the distinguished visitors' gallery, where sat a little old U. S.-born lady...