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...last two years of college will be devoted to a view of "life in its wholeness." Such a system is impossible. The art of living can not be acquired through contemplation of present problems in their relation to the aspects of an older civilization. Men cannot through study erect a formula for the satisfactory life any more than he can add a cubit's length to his height by taking thought. Education, if it is to mean anything, must equip the student with a foundation upon which he can build the edifice of his life. This can only be accomplished...
Contrary to the general belief, a covered rink at Soldiers Field would involve an expenditure of not more than $150,000. West Point has erected a rink, with an auxiliary artificial ice plant for such a sum, and Harvard could erect a rink to meet all its needs with a similar sum. The Director of Athletics in his last three reports to the President, has called attention to the need of such an addition to the athletic plant...
...Manhattan where, over public protest, the world's largest bridge was last year named for Washington and where a scandal in connection with the sale of Washington seals has already occurred, a project was on foot to erect a replica of Mount Vernon in Bryant Park. When the Metropolitan Museum of Art removed from its walls to the basement Emanuel Leutze's painting of Washington Crossing the Delaware, popular clamor compelled it to lug the massive picture up again for temporary hanging in its American Wing...
...appearance he is small, lean and wiry. His thin face is tanned a reddish brown. His stubbly brown hair he wears cut short and upright. His clothes are expensively conservative. On the floor he usually sits erect and silent, hands folded attentively in his lap. On the rare occasions when he does speak, he asks in advance not to be interrupted and then begins to read: "The Navy is the first line of defense. . . .'' No orator, his voice lacks resonance and pitch. When drawn into rough-&-tumble debate on the Navy, he becomes fussed and nervous...
Silent on the platform sat Dictator Josef Stalin, and to No. i Correspondent Walter Duranty the Man of Steel looked "benevolent." Comrade Vyacheslav Molotov, the thickset, middle-aged Soviet Premier, talked. Six hundred stomachs quaked with laughter when he said: ''We are trying to erect next year more blast furnaces than the United States will close down...