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...organization of the Fletcher Graduate School of Diplomacy at Tufts University represents the concrete realization of a desire long felt by educators to further the important study of international relations. The new school which is to be situated at Tufts, will have a faculty composed largely of Harvard professors; its curriculum, determined by a joint commission of the two Universities, will purpose to quality students for diplomatic service by advance instruction in international...
...foundation of the new Fletcher School is a recognition of the great possibilities afforded by a separate institution in the study of international diplomacy. Under judicious management it may well gain the prestige and dignity of organized scholarship which is impossible to attain while the field is regarded merely as a part of an Arts and Sciences curriculum or when, although isolated, it labors under the stigma of pure vocationalism. Study under such conditions would endow men entering the state department with a far more scholarly attitude than before; the new atmosphere should encourage more students to enter the field...
...certain dolphin or jackfish, the existence of which is sworn to by many ship captains, which, meeting and swimming a few feet ahead of the ships served as a guide through the treacherous Pelorus straights on the inner route along the great barrier reefs of Australia. . . . L. M. FLETCHER...
...from Manhasset, L. I. one dark evening last fortnight put a small, dark craft called Tar Baby. Aboard were a banker, a broker, an aviator. Broker R. Snowden Andrews and Aviator John Petre were old sealers; Banker Edward Fletcher had never heard a seal bark. Thirty-six hours later the Tar Baby crept toward Goose Island, the Sound's favorite seal haunt. But the weather was thick, the seals kept away from the rocks where on bright days they bask. Patiently the banker, the broker, the aviator waited for another dawn. That day it snowed, they shivered aboard their...
...Fletcher's, Not Gibson's Sirs...