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TIME issue of April 27, p. 62, reports interestingly about Japanese Prince Takamatsu's visit to the U. S. Naval Academy* amnesty for refractory midshipmen* "First time in the history of the U. S. Navy."WRONG, TIME! When benevolent, generous Albert, King of the Belgians, visited the U. S. after the World War, he requested that the Academy's strict regulations of punishment be set aside the day he reviewed the regiment of middies. Several hundred Navy alumni, many TIME readers, remember joyfully King Albert's thoughtfulness...
...rents, no matter whether necessary or not, can be paid by the Harvard undergraduate and hence should be charged. The other faction holds that the accrued rent is needed to defray the cost, of running the houses and hence must be charged. The first point is not only economically wrong but is unfair. Certainly no more than absolutely necessary should be charged. The second point admits another fallacy on which the authorities are working. They have taken Dunster and Lowell houses as criteria on which to fix the basic charge. These two houses had the pick of the University...
Those Harvard men who died fighting with the Allies helped win a great victory of right over wrong, else they died in vain. If war can ever prove anything it proves that the Harvard men who died with the Central Powers were defending a wrong for which they never should have taken up arms at all. Germany and her associated Powers were all wrong from the very start else the war they fought must be classed as wholesale murder...
TIME'S picture of the "Compass Boy" (April 20) was unbeatable-would that we scientists could imitate TIME'S lively reporting-but it gives two wrong impressions that are worth correcting, 1) When blind-folded and revolved in a chair the "Compass Boy" lost his sense of direction before he became dizzy. 2) His orientation is carried out, I believe, entirely visually; he gets little or no assistance from auditory, olfactory, or vestibular apparatus...
...Sterilization is not a punishment but a protection. It carries no stigma or humiliation. The imbecile mind is criminal and you can't breed it out. Beginning of wrong-doing is hereditary and starts in the secretive actions. By preventing reproduction, one of the basic causes can be cured...