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Miami opened its municipal airport; Miami watched air races and stunts; Miami saw the Pan-American Airways begin U. S. passenger and mail service to the several West Indies. All this occurred the fore part of last week...
...President of Argentina, famed Dr. Hypolito Irigoyen (TIME, Oct. 22) is among the strongest and wisest of her potent Socialist statesmen. During his previous administration (1916-22) Dr. Irigoyen introduced the secret ballot, and as a progressive legislator he stands honorably to the fore. On the other hand he does not hesitate to disperse unruly mobs, whether laborite or communist, with ruthless rifle fire...
...ancient Vedantic philosophy (man is soul, and has a body that must be subjugated); his contribution was the forging of the middle way between pleasure and self-mortification by which man ascends the Mount of Vision. Confucius, Ancient Teacher, Perfect Sage, "has river eyes and a dragon fore head ... his arms are long, his back is like a tortoise . . . when he speaks he praises the ancient kings. He moves along the path of humility and courtesy. He has heard of every subject. . . . His knowledge of things seems inexhaustible." He edited the ancient classics, compiled the precepts of propriety, attempted...
...other significant trend shown in the present report finds English, which has held the lead for the past six years, superseded numerically by Economics. And this is not the first time that Economics has come to the fore; previous to the ascendancy of English the Department of Economics held away during several desultory years. The movement is patently variable and the reasons for the present turn at best only hypothetical. It may be that more students are now concentrating in Economics than in English or any of the sciences because the propensities of the modern Harvard mind tend toward...
...cloud of ashes blotted the stars, the moon. Waves of heat shot from the mountain and the air choked with sulphur and acid fumes. . . . Farmyard beasts screeched. Cats, fascinated, stood fast facing Etna's black jelly until it caught their fore paws. Then the cats could not drag themselves free, could not bound away. Birds swooped inquisitively towards the moving earth, were paralyzed by the heat and vapors, tumbled down into the mess. Lava buried...