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...necessarily approve all the present courses now required. Some are probably unnecessary and should be replaced with others. A great many are taught from what is possibly the wrong approach. This does not affect, however, the fundamental thesis--that for the first two years of college to force all students in general to take a few specified courses, or courses in certain specified fields, is a basically sound policy. We hope that Yale will not go far in following the recent action of Vassar in sweeping away course requirements. Yale Daily News...
...James Jeans, it is asserted, is wrong in his estimate of 5,000 billion the magnitude of stars each part of the years for the age of the system. It appears to be much younger than that--probably only about 5 billion years, but there seems to be no reason to expect that it will disintegrate much for another 1,000 billion years...
...president," faltered Buck. "What's wrong...
...Heaven, the divine Emperor of Japan, was returning from Grand Army Maneuvers with Sergeant Honda out in front in the police pilot car. Since any street down which His Majesty is to ride must first be swept, purified and sanded, to make a wrong turn might seem impossible. Suddenly Sergeant Honda's heart was in his throat, his eyes bulged and sweat poured from his forehead. His pilot car had made a wrong turn. He was leading the Divine Emperor down a street unswept, unsanded, and unguarded! As horrified courtiers later reported, "'The surprised spectators were not even...
Meanwhile Sergeant Honda was put under guard. Home Minister Fumio Goto, responsible for the police of all Japan, was moving Heaven and earth to hush the scandal. He almost succeeded. Seventy-two hours after the wrong turn no Japanese paper yet dared mention it. Then Sergeant Honda, closely guarded to prevent his trying to commit suicide, outwitted his keepers and slashed a four-inch gash in his throat. As he was rushed to hospital the story broke wide open. In Tokyo almost everyone expected the Home Minister, the Governor of the Prefecture and all officials however remotely concerned to resign...