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...both declined the role of puppet premier. In London the British Government saved its face temporarily by ignoring the question of Burma, urging the Conference to talk about India, particularly about the renowned inability of India's Hindus. Moslems and Sikhs to agree upon a system for their "communal representation" in the future Indian Parliament under the future Indian Constitution...
...cablegram from Allahabad, where prominent Hindus, Moslems and Sikhs have been holding a ''Unity Conference." The cablegram, signed by Pandit Madan Mohan Mala viva, a Hindu leader much revered and close to Mahatma Gandhi, stated that the Unity Conference had united in rejecting the British proposals for "communal representation" and further agreed that "transference of the government from the British Raj to the Indian people is an indispensable step, preliminary to any other agreement...
...prodigious, equaling or even exceeding that of snake venom. . . . Of what use is this power? Why can it so influence its fellow vegetables? In that lies the puzzle." Perhaps the emanations explain what warehousers of apples have known for a long time, "that there is a kind of communal life, a herd quality, in apples when stored together. They tend to and. indeed, they do ripen at much the same rate...
...called cultural knowledge into the realm of experience and wisdom by means of a thorough study and understanding of some philosophy embodied in a civilization whether past or present, then the ideal might be realized. A group of students seeking knowledge of this sort and living a communal life within the University would be a powerful-generative and inspirational force. To the average undergraduate Harvard now represents merely a means to becoming a gentleman, a trained scholar, or a business man with sufficient culture to make profitable use of his leisure time. Possibly there is no way in which this...
Commoners (male & female) wear corduroys and overalls, live a communal life which in leisure hours includes swimming in Mill Creek, dancing, group singing, tennis, volley ball and taking siestas under the trees. The Commonwealth College Fortnightly tells of their activities. Excerpts...