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College commencements are a flow of soul rather than a feast of reason. Last week they overflowed. The class of 1940 was cast adrift into the narrowing world with more than usual confusion of harangues, warnings, objurgations ringing in its ears...
...consider forming convoys armed by themselves. From Sept. 3 to Feb. 15, Norway alone lost 47 vessels totaling 103,121 tons, nine of them in the last month. Last week she demanded from Germany compensation for damages, prosecution of U-boat commanders who machine-gun unarmed crews, set them adrift on the high seas...
Fifty persons were rescued when a city-owned steamer went adrift in Boston Harbor; hundreds were marooned in hotels and municipal buildings in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut while thousands of stalled automobiles blocked highways. Severe seas were reported battering the Rhode Island coast from Watch Hill to Narrangansett and snow drifts from one to five feet deep were reported by State Police in the southern New England area...
...bombing Finland leaped hastily from their cockpits to vote. In Moscow, said the announcer, Marshal Simeon Mikhailovich Budenny was elected delegate "several times over." Joseph Stalin's district was 100% for him. Concluded the announcer: "In the northernmost electoral unit of the Soviet Union, aboard the icebreaker Sedov -adrift for two years in Arctic ice-the hardy crew could not sleep owing to their impatience for the moment when they would be first allowed to vote...
...from the chairmanship of the Department of Economics will cause regret not only among his large body of personal friends, but among the members of the University as a whole. The retirement of such an able administrator from the helm of the largest department in college leaves the department adrift at an especially crucial moment. Yet one cannot help but admire his sparkling career in such a responsible position and feel that his relief from duty is well deserved...