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...Flown 500 miles southwest to the Crimea, he was taken aboard a yacht which cruised along the coast to Yalta, and he slept at the Livadia palace, where the Big Three signed their wartime pact. Wherever he paused along the route he was besieged by organized groups of chil dren dancing, singing and showering flow ers on his party...
...bloody civil war and the famine years that followed. Borodin emerged as a young "Red technician." a microbiologist trained in Novocherkassk in the Cauca sus. During the first Red famine, he had inadvertently eaten meat which turned out to be the fried flesh of murdered chil dren. He had lectured in a church changed into a "Club of Godless Science" and learned that freedom is merely "perceived necessity." He was soon attracted to the secret police "as an interesting state institution." After the Chekists honored him with the title of "scientific consultant," he grew especially fond of a line from...
...25th reunion of his class at Harvard, and it was with much of the agony that H. M. Pulham Esq. went through ("a good deal like something on a tombstone . . . never did like writing . . .") that he dutifully recorded his life. He noted that he had three chil dren, was president of Appleton's Lawrence College (enrollment: 800), that "liberal education is my chief concern." But by the time all that was published, Nathan Pusey's autobiography was hopelessly out of date...
Teachers have always recognized this fact . . . Today, due to our compulsory school laws, we are required to keep these chil dren in school until they are 17 or 18 years old. The teacher, in her effort to cope with these uneducable students, must of necessity neglect the brighter ones . . . The British are far more practical . . . They guarantee every child an elementary education, but at the end of this period they separate the sheep from the goats. The brighter students are sent on to secondary schools; the duller ones are sent to trade schools...
...recording his blood pressure and corpuscle counts. Fish were plentiful, especially flying fish, which obligingly got caught in the sail and flopped on to the deck during the night. Bombard tried to pass the time by listening to the radio, gazing at photographs of his wife and chil dren, studying plankton under a microscope, taking notes on marine life, composing music (two concertos and half a symphony, he later reported). After the radio battery petered out in mid-Atlantic, loneliness gripped him hard...