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...Conant, in announcing a new Ph.D. degree in the "History of Science and Learning." has once again revealed the essential wisdom as well as the superficial inconsistency of University policy. Unanswerable arguments are advanced proving the cultural and intellectual value of courses in the history of science, yet they correspond almost exactly with those used to support the elementary science requirement. Thus it is patently necessary to broaden that requirement and to apply to the College a change of emphasis similar to that announced for the Graduate School...
...first issue of Western Trails Subscriber-Convict Capone may read "Maverick Law," "Double-Barreled Decoy," "Branded with Lead," "Trigger Tempest." He may correspond and exchange cowboy songs with Miss Billie Arnette of Troy, Ohio, who is 5 ft. 7 in. with light brown wavy hair and grey eyes and belongs to the "Pen Pards" of Western Trails. By answering advertisements he may learn to play the guitar in ten minutes, break himself of the tobacco habit, sell tear-gas pencils to his friends, discover how to have a baby, learn to be a Secret Service...
...Hollywood last week, the American Society of Cinematographers awarded to two amateur cameramen the prizes which, for owners of miniature movie outfits, correspond to the awards which the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences give to cinema professionals. To R. B. Clardy, a Los Angeles commercial artist, went $250 for his 200-ft. film, New Horizon. A 20-year-old Japanese, Tatuschi Okamoto, who won the photography award two years ago, last week took $100 second prize with a picture called Tender Friendship...
...scholarship, which was to make possible a year of study at the University of Munich for a Harvard student, was rejected, it was reported, on the grounds that Hanfstaengl was closely connected with a government that had destroyed in Germany fundamental principles of universities. That these grounds do not correspond to the view of the Harvard Faculty one could conclude as a matter of course simply from the fact that the present Dean of Harvard's renowned Law Faculty, Roscoe Pound, accepted two months ago an honorary doctorate from the University of Berlin. Besides, it should be recalled that last...
Last week Foreign Minister Mussolini ordered the Italian Legation in Nanking raised to the rank of an Embassy, "to make it correspond with the importance of China as a great power and with the importance of the political, economic and cultural relations between Italy and China." Only other Power to compliment Great Power China with an Embassy is Soviet Russia...