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...night calm and cloudless, last week, Death hovered over the Soviet Socialist Republic of Armenia.* To the west Mount Ararat slumbered. To the east peasants watched their flocks in the valley of Araxes, allegedly the valley created "Eden" by Jehovah. Suddenly the earth's crust moved, opened a thousand cracks and fissures throughout the great plain of Alexandropol (now Leninakan). Whirling seething earth-masses hurtled and reeled. With a roar like that of thunder, many of the stone buildings of Leninakan crashed in ruins. All electric, gas, telephone and telegraph equipment were thrown out of commission. When communication...
...Alexanian '27 has joined the ranks of undergraduate authors with his book. "When I Was a Boy in Armenia." The book is dedicated to Dean R. E. Bacon '16, and inscribed to Harvard University, to which the author declares his great indebtedness for his present progress from the backward education of Armenia to the higher training afforded here...
...story describes his experiences in Armenia during the massacres and recalls the hardships which Americans so little understood. He explains the relations of the people with the Turks and expresses his great thankfulness for the opportunity which came to him to free him from his unfortunate surroundings...
...result of the deportation of Christian minorities from Anatolia, a million and a quarter of these refugees have been herded into Greece. Thousands more have come from the regions of Damascus and Hunns. Armenia has been trying to assimilate 30,000 refugees. It is in behalf of these people that the Phillips Brooks House Association will conduct its drive to obtain from students in the University, the cast-off clothes which they will no longer use, but which will be most helpful to the refugees of the Near East...
Conversion by the sword seems to apply alike to gods and galoshes. The derbied and the turbaned Turk are brothers below the scalp. Their desires repressed on the battle-fields of the Balkans and in the valleys of Armenia, find vent in less holy carnage on the Black Sea coast. But it must be tedious for the more peaceful Moslems to spend their mornings in detailed perusal of statute books, lost a life be at stake in the crease of a trouser leg or the tilt of a hat brim...