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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whom you have entertained and some of the splendid addresses you have listened to I only wish it was within my power to follow in their footsteps and say something which might be of profit to you to hear. But as nature has withheld this gift from me, I content myself with telling you how very glad I am to be here, how very pleased I am to have been entertained by you, and to thank you from the bottom of my heart...
...Belgrade Hospital. Svetozar Pribitchevitch was not sick but has been locked up in Belgrade Hospital for months, the Government not daring to throw him into Belgrade jail. As Pribitchevitches grew weaker last week the Government seemed to grow more relentless, suppressed all news of the hunger strike, seemed content to let Svetozar Pribitchevitch die. Then suddenly King Alexander relented...
...alarmed in Oslo was Norwegian Premier Ludvig Kolstad by this outrage that he despatched to Porsgrund two destroyers, two minelayers, a company of the Royal Guard, a machine gun battery and police bomb squads. Not content with even these precautions, Premier Kolstad called conscripts in and around Porsgrund, thereby compelling a majority of the 1,000 strikers into the Norwegian Army. Should they resist further, they could be shot as deserters...
...content with a mere abracadabresque chanting of holy names, Durant follows up his list of required reading with many a hortatory ejaculation. "Absorb every word of Taine's chapter on Byron. . . . Do not miss the odes of Keats. . . . Go then, to William James. . . ." Nothing if not an enthusiast, he exclaims of John Cowper Powys: "Here is the finest American prose since Santayana...
...every human being to get away from things, to go where the roar of the work-a-day world can be heard no more. No matter what diversions are planned for in the "new life" at Yale, it will not be possible to make young men 100 per cent content with a "city college." Week-ending is not caused by a dissatisfaction with the University, but by a fervent eagerness to get a change in atmosphere. Those who wish to discourage our "exodus" do so without a real understanding of the problem...