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...Jack Calkins had scored the normal aggressiveness of the Cantab rugby-footballers waned temporarily. A fleeting spark of the form they displayed against a smooth Princeton bunch returned five minutes later as outer Bill Dawson bounced a high pass to John Spivak, who headed it into the opposition ball basket...
Washington would attach. Liberal, scholarly Hu Shih took a parable from Mencius : "Here are a small basket of rice and a bowl of soup, and the case is one in which the getting of them will preserve life and the want of them will be death. [Yet] if they are offered with insulting voice, even a tramp will not receive them . . . even a beggar will not stoop to take them." Still other Chinese, not quite sure what the U.S. might eventually ladle out, hoped for more than drops. Editorialized Shanghai's China Press last week: "China's needs...
...Council. Hoping to get everything just right when speed was the important factor, the committee launched into a lengthy correspondence with Charles Lauckman. He returned a five question, sheet, the Council tossed in two more questions, looked at the poll and heaved it into the waste paper basket. Two more weeks of unhappy revisions followed and now a third poll dealing exclusively with bread, pie, and wheat cereals lies on the chopping block. A grand total of seven weeks to find out if Harvard wants to save food...
...Observe," said Ruskin, "that what this impressionable person does draw she draws as like as she can. . . . You can't every day, for instance, see a baby thrown into a basket of roses; but when she has once pleasantly invented that arrangement for you, baby is as like baby and rose as like rose as she can possibly draw them . . . they are blissful just in the degree that they are natural; the fairyland that she creates for you is not beyond the sky nor beneath the sea, but near you, even at your doors...
Emergency calls and treatment such as this, however, are only one apple out of the whole basket of child care offered by the Pediatric Service. Any one of the Harvard community's 1,500 to 2,000 children of veterans can get-free-examinations, immunization, diagnosis, treatment, hospital care, expensive medicines-in other words, the works...