Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Occident. It is of record that under the Chou Dynasty, more than two millenniums ago, some 660.000 acres in Shensi were benefiting by a prudent irrigation system. But toilsome Chinese efforts, both before and since, have availed less in relieving droughts than have their partially successful flood control methods (success being measured by the proud statement of Chinese scholars that the great Yellow River has completely altered its course only three times in the last millennium...
Meanwhile the following additional major causes will operate to bring famine: i) unrestricted childbearing among the ignorant Chinese masses, who have no knowledge of birth control; 2) low agricultural yields even from fertile land, caused by traditional, inefficient methods of cultivation; 3) backward financial and industrial conditions, just now accentuated by the widespread collapse of credit due to the Civil War; 4) the constitutional lack of a spirit of resolute co-operation among Chinese (this lack being constantly made manifest by their failure to unite in effective numbers for any purpose what soever beyond the horizon of a single family...
...unpopular has the CRIMSON become in the eyes of some Harvard men, according to Dean Nichols, that already there are "whispered threatening of censorship, graduate control, and a University owned newspaper...
...these respects. The unfortunate aspect of the situation is that in this day of far flung publicity those errors are flung broadeast through the country. And the graduates humiliated and ashamed and, perhaps, too, a little forgetful of their own youthful indiscretions, turn to the suggestion of graduate control for the CRIMSON as the quickest remedy for an undisputed evil...
...from a position as the twentieth industrial country in the world to the eighth largest, and this industrial change brought with it, as well as the changes in the social status, a new desire on the part of the people of India for political freedom so that they might control their own destinies...