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...Japs found they couldn't run the Solomon Islands without the help of an American-born missionary. And so the last word via Suva is that stocky, jolly little Bishop Thomas Wade is out of jail and very busy protecting his flock from the Japs and the Japs from his flock...
...reported near. The bishop stayed put. Soon a Jap seaplane swooped down to take possession and Bishop Wade, like Pope Leo I going out to meet Attila, stalked down the beach in his full pontifical robes to confront the startled aviators and demand respect for his Church and flock. Then the Japs flew away and Bishop Wade ran the islands unmolested until last month, when they came in force and put him in jail. They soon learned that they could not govern with out him and set him free to maintain the peace...
Upon this thesis Spykman builds his house in which the family of nations lives about as peacefully as most families with a flock of aspiring young egos seeking self-expression. The United States, he believes, is caught in the game of power politics which finds us menaced by a super-pincers in the event of a German-Japanese victory and shows us as a bogeyman to South America, especially the A.B.C. countries. Economically tied to the transoceanic routes, we are also tied to them politically and militarily. The notion of hemispheric defence, streamlined stand of the isolationists, the author explodes...
During the coming session, the Harvard Summer School will treat the large flock of undergraduates like the usual group of transients and scholastic delinquents. Students will have to pay five dollars a half course to audit the classes that, during the winter, are open to them free of charge. Intending the summer session as a continuation of the regular college, the University should allow undergraduates their usual auditing privileges. Many will have neither the interest nor the time to attend other courses, but it is a poor plan to restrict students who are interested in a more varied education...
...plate, the Varsity displayed some powerhouse play. Ned Fitzgibbons kept ahead of the flock with four hits for six times at bat and both Bill Barnes and Bart Harvey slammed the ball for round-trippers. Barnes homered in the fifth and again in the eighth, knocking in five runs...