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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having had the opportunity to see West Point from "the inside" my impressions are offered as graphically as possible-the more so by reason of the direct contrast with Harvard. Where this university is noted for its middle western intellectualism and all-round liberalism and even a fair amount of social consciousness, West Point represents the opposite in its democracy where money, name, or position mean literally nothing...
Naval Big Guns. The argument about the relative value of plane and battleships boils down to a complex problem in strategy. In current naval theory planes are employed primarily not to sink rival battleships but: 1) to scout their position, 2) to disable them by bombing, 3) to direct the fire of their own ships which may be hull down over the horizon...
...however, give the credit to Mme Chiang Kaishek. They remembered last week that all during the Japanese siege of Shanghai, defending Chinese troops complained that her planes rarely ventured to bomb the Japanese in daylight, bombed them only ineffectively at night, failed to sink or score a direct hit on the Japanese flagship Idzumo which lay anchored a fair target in the Whangpoo, week after week...
...Direct Reply to Union Charges...
This unfortunate tendency was only too apparent in the recent batch of annual reports. Because Dr. Bock ventured to illustrate his point that the tempo of modern life is hard on the nervous system, it was instantly interpreted as a direct rebuke at Benito Mussolini for upsetting the equilibrium of Harvard University. This impression and the accompanying ridicule were not Dr. Bock's fault, but he should have known better...