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...delegation. ¶ To the Congress which returned last week from its vacation. President Hoover addressed a special message, reiterating his Relief program, urging its speedy enactment. Said he: "I would be derelict in my duty if I did not inform the Congress of the need for action at its earliest possible moment...
...prevent the proper study of the abortion problem. ¶The $400 Federal income tax exemption for each child should be increased. The Government might thus help alleviate the burdens of parenthood, would remove an inducement to abortion. ¶ Women should be told that interference with pregnancy, even in its earliest stages, is not the harmless procedure they seem to consider it to be, but is a procedure inevitably associated with considerable risk to life and especially to future health...
...loaned to the museum by Denman Ross '75. Some of the prints in the exhibition are uncolored, while others are decorated in many brilliant shades. One of the finest in the collection is "Buddha Accompanied by Two Buddhists" all in golden dress, done about 1750. An example of the earliest tempre painting is the "Nirvana of Buddha" from the fourteenth or fifteenth centuries. These remarkable Japanese works of art were made by monks in temples and sold at the doors to the people, who took them home as sacred relics...
...Germanic Museum, as the College has always known it, was founded in the good old tradition of those earliest museums of all, magpies nests, where anything was grist to the curator's, mill. But now, under the leadership of Dr. Kuhn, it has weighed its collection in the balance with the idea of exhibiting only what has educational value and leads to an appreciation of German art. Certain isolated plaster-casts have had to go because they were inadequate substitutes for the originals, while countless photographs have been relegated to steel files, where those who must can use them. There...
...leaders was, of course, the natural outcome of her ancient and still dominant social system. It led inevitably to the conclusion, which Washington so often expressed with reference to military leadership, that the best leaders almost inevitably come from what is called "the ruling class." Thus, England's earliest educational development, indeed, almost her only advanced educational development until 1870, was the highly exclusive and class-conscious "public schools" and universities...