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...fall on half-interested cars; what Massachusetts Democrats want to hear is the tale of '28, the tale of Republican bigotry, and hypocrisy, the tale of their unswerving loyalty. To recall to their minds his moral ascendancy, Mr. Smith has small need of polished periods, of intricate logic, of strict party loyalty; his battle is personal, best won by informality, candor, sneers and jibes. His leadership thus established, he need only mention his advocacy of the party ticket, and his audience will agree...
...Students at Harvard enjoy, in some directions, a larger measure of freedom than is customary in English Universities, where there are strict regulations as to hours," remarked Ephraim Lipson, of New College, Oxford, in a CRIMSON interview last night...
...student strike which meant business and speedily accomplished it was the one at W. & J. during five days of March 1931. Calling Dr. Baker "autocratic" and "domineering," the students protested his strict rules for dress (such as forbidding corduroy trousers), his delay in building a new stadium, his dismissal of three professors, his regulations by which it seemed that athletes were made to work harder than plain students. A trustees' committee investigated the charges. Before it could report, Dr. Baker resigned his job (TIME, May 25, 1931). Ill health (a prostate operation in 1930) was partly responsible...
Such stories are amusing and a bit startling but the article loses force through its aura of unsubstantiated generalization. The condemnation does not hold for all men who study abroad; many universities, especially the larger institutions, are strict in their selection of scholarship men, and the results justify such a course. But Mr. Axelgaard's investigation is nonetheless valuable. Scholarship grants should obviously not be bestowed on incompetents like Sykes. That they are is due largely to the preposterous trust that America reposes in education, especially foreign education. In turning the sharp light of his wit upon such individual cases...
Because non-Moslems are barred from Mecca during the pilgrim season upon pain of death; because Ibn Saud and his personal followers are so strict that they might be called Moslem Fundamentalists; and because few Christians care a whoop what happens in Arabia, news from the Land of Saud is always scarce, usually untrustworthy. Biggest Christian news of recent years was the 58-day trek of English Explorer Bertram Thomas across 900 miles of arid waste, famed for its weirdly noisy ''singing sands'' and called the Riilxi-aI-Khali or "Abode of Loneliness" (TIME. March...