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Under Egypt's joke status as a "free, independent and sovereign Kingdom." there are three powers in that ancient country: Britain, the Egyptian King and the overwhelmingly popular Wafd Party. Of these three, any combination of two is possible. Britain and Fuad combined to suppress the Wafd; Britain and the Wafd combined to clip Fuad's autocratic powers; Fuad and the Wafd combined to defy Britain. Last week the death of King Fuad cut short the deliberations of delegations of Britons and Egyptians engaged in drawing up a new Anglo-Egyptian treaty giving Egypt a few new privileges...
Anthropology is neither an old science like mathematics, astronomy and medicine, nor a modern one like genetics or electronics. The ancient Greeks were willing enough to assign man a place in the animal kingdom and some of them, notably Anaximander, had an inkling of evolution. But they were content to speculate and philosophize. In the early 19th Century anthropology as a science had made little headway. Species and varieties of plants and animals were considered changeless, and so were the races of man. The strange manlike bones found here & there in caves and quarries were thought to be the remains...
...have bedded with female slaves of different race, whites have mated with Indians and Negroes. Southern children show no aversion whatever to black nurses, must be taught by their elders not to accept blacks as equals. The strongest antipathies are those between social castes like those of India and ancient Egypt - between people of the same race...
...convention game the team of Roosevelt & Farley will have to play this year is solitaire. Last week the President and Postmaster General both felt entirely safe in predicting that one of the first things to be accomplished at Philadelphia next June will be abolition of the party's ancient two-thirds rule...
TUESDAY, MAY 5 Morning 9.15--11.15 Fine Arts (written, with slides) Large Fogg Lecture Room 9.15--12.15 Geological Sciences Sever 29 9.15--12.15 Latin Translation Literature, Ancient Authors (Honors) Sever 29 9.15--12.15 Systematic Philosophy and Special Psychological Topics Emerson A WEDNESDAY, MAY 6 Morning Anthropology (oral) Peabody Museum 9.15--12.15 Biochemical Sciences Emerson 211 9.15--12.15 Biology Emerson A 9.15--12.15 English Literature (Part Two) Emerson D 9.15--12.15 Greek Composition (Greek 3 and 7) Sever 29 9.15--12.15 Literature, Modern Authors (Honors) Sever 29 9.15--12.15 History of Modern Philosophy Emerson F *9.15--12.15 Sociology Emerson 27 Afternoon...