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...essence President Frank's statement constitutes a brief for the liberal college. He sees the elective system as the symbol of the confusion which has befallen education and society alike with the increasing complexity of civilization. Unable itself to sift the mass of new knowledge the university shifts to the student the onus of selecting his own studies. The modern institution of learning thus becomes a vast intellectual cafeteria at which the immature student orders a la carte and suffers indigestion for his folly. In remedy President Frank suggests abandoning the elective system and the futility of smatterings, and teaching...
...nuns driven out and the convent looted. . . . Thirty years ago I founded my convent; what is there left for me? . . . We taught the young girls to do good works among the poor; I had 200 under my rule. . . . No one can imagine the horrors that have befallen our Church. It has been a very sad thing. . . . Father Victor Fabre was wounded in the neck. For a week he was in prison, then in a hole with pigs on a ship. . . . There are good people in Mexico, holy and devout. They pray for the intervention of your government...
...title was conferred upon him by King Vittorio Emanuele as a reward for his highly successful governorship of Misurata in Italian Tripoli. And it is well known that as a boy he was obliged to earn his own living as the result of financial reverses which had befallen his family...
...Nome, Alaska, the schooner Maude made port after an absence of two years, then headed out again for San Francisco where her owner, Explorer Roald Amundsen of Norway, had instructed that she should be sold (TIME, Aug. 24). From Nome were relayed some of the adventures that had befallen the Maude during the months when she lay locked in ice-floes off East Cape, Siberia, first trying to drift up over the Pole, then trying to get home...
Germans claimed with overpowering logic that the whole area, rich in coal and other minerals, was geographically and economically indivisible; but divided it was. "Never," said that great German Jew, Walther Rathenau, "has such a hard fate befallen our land." An economic condominium was successfully negotiated which had for its object the preservation from chaos of the highly organized industrial area; but, in view of the fact that the Poles were agitating to oust all Germans from the country, it was not surprising that dual control was a failure, resulting in tremendous diminution of output...