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...reader whose knowledge of China is gained largely from newspaper accounts, revolution may well seem to be the chronice condition of that country. The past twenty years have seen a series of military dictators succeed each other in the seat of power only to be ousted in turn by some ambitions subordinate or rival. Out of this chaotic scene Professor Holcombe here tries to isolate the significant incidents and to demonstrate the continuity of development that lies behind them. The book is more than a scholar's reference work, for the facts collected are analyzed and interpreted by a critical...
...include the introduction of a system of state capitalism, the replacement of the family by the individuals as the responsible unit of the state, and the enforcement of absolute eauality in dealings with foreign nations. Full realization of these ideals may take many years but in time they will succeed in restering China to the position of a world Professor Holcombe concludes on a note of optimism, and no one who reads the closely-reasoned and well substantiated justification for it which forms the body of the book will find it easy to dispute...
Harry Ingersoll Nicholas Jr. '31, of Syosset, Long Island, New York, has been elected captain of the University polo team for this season, to succeed E. T. Gerry 2nd '31, who has become Ineligible, it was announced yesterday...
...great-grandfather's name was von Beneckendorf, but this ancestor's eccentric great-uncle von Hindenburg left him some money on condition that he add "und von Hindenburg" to his "von Beneckendorf." Never before, perhaps, did a "freak will" succeed so well...
...Robert Seymour Bridges, 85 since 1913 Poet Laureate of England; after a short illness; at his home, Chilswell, Boar's Hill, Oxford. Son of a country 'squire, Etonian, Oxonian, he abandoned medicine for poetry at the age of 37 A classicist and inveterate prosodist, his appointment to succeed Laureate Alfred Austin amazed the literary world-Kipling, Yeats, Masefield, and Hardy were also regarded as candidates. Continually was Laureate Bridges chided for silence, poetical and personal; when he visited the U. S. and denied interviews, one newspaper headlined: KING'S CANARY WON'T CHIRP. Less than...