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...Captain Frankau's job, outside of novel writing, is that of weekly political columnist for the Cockney-Tory Sunday Pictorial. In the U. S. he recently gaped at the hanging of Murderer Gerald Chapman and described it for Publisher Hearst...
...Under what did Roy Chapman Andrews rush when bombed in China...
Scientist Bombed. When two of Chang's airplanes flew over Peking early in the week, dropping bombs at random, their pilots little suspected that one bomb exploded within 20 feet of Roy Chapman Andrews, discoverer of the first dinosaur eggs known to moderns, chief of the American Museum of Natural History's division of Asiatic exploration. Mr. Andrews had wisely leaped beneath a box car when the airplanes soared into view, and was not among the five persons killed (all Chinese). Emerging from his impromptu shelter, he continued to supervise the loading of the car with scientific paraphernalia...
After satirizing several prominent educational institutions, Chapman, the final speaker for Harvard, gave the essence of his argument by saying, "education hardens the mind, thickens the skull, makes us uncomfortable within and unbearable without...
...subject, "Resolved: That education is the curse of the present age", was in the informal English manner, and was characterized by the wit and cleverness of the speeches on both sides. The team which clinched the Big Three debating title for Harvard was composed of D. W. Chapman '27, Barrett Williams '28, and F. W. Lorenzen...