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...years of compulsory Latin and a gallery-full of modern paintings would make the village a cultural cen- tre. The hardy life would "make the boy of 12 self-reliant, the boy of 14 resourceful, the boy of 16 persevering...
...York Uni versity, he gave last week as chatty and graphic a talk as the wireless has ever carried to listening thousands. "I predict air transportation at a cost of less than 30c a ton mile. I predict a Nation-wide connecting-up of all important commercial and industrial cen tres with air mail operating at night between such centres as are approximately 1,000 miles anp.rt...
...rediscount rate of the New York Reserve Bank compares with the rates of the other leading central banks of the world as follows: Austria 12, Belgium 5½, Bulgaria 7, Czecho-Slovakia 6, Denmark 7, England 4, France 6, Germany 10 (cen-tenmarks) and 90 (old paper marks), Greece 7½, Hungary 18, India 7, Italy 5½, Japan 8, Holland 5, Norway 7, Poland 12, Portugal 9, Rumania 6, South Africa 6, Spain 5, Sweden 5½, Switzerland...
These stories have not the slightest basis recorded and two cen turies of debate have discredited their fantastic imaginings. But it is conceivable that the Simmons party may find ruins and relics of an ancient civilization in some of the islands. They will visit in order the Cape Verde, Fernando de Noronha, Trinidad, South Georgia, St. Helena, and about 40 other Atlantic islands, only a few of which are inhabited, thence entering the In dian Ocean. The schooner will sail over 20,000 miles...
Mahatma Gandhi, Indian-Non-Co-operatist: "One Bishop Charles H. Brent, chancellor of Hobart College, N. Y., selected for his students the 'four greatest men of the 20th Cen-tury.' He named: Woodrow Wilson, Cardinal Mercier, Nikolai Lenin and myself...