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...thus precipitately doing away with a tottering anachronism which its predecessors have chosen to gloss over, the present Student Council will give another instance of the efficient dispatch pleasantly characteristic of its regime. Not content with mere issuance of the customary annual report, the Council seems actively to be investigating certain traditional grievances, long in need of correction, for the purpose of applying immediate and definite remedy. Chief among these campaigns is the vigorous movement, announced early in the fall, to eliminate hour exams for juniors and seniors...
...shirker is square-faced Count Yasuya Uchida, until last week Japan's Foreign Minister. Thrice Foreign Minister in his prime, he was 67 and getting deaf last year when his Emperor called him back to gloss over Japan's Manchurian grab. Then he resigned as president of the South Manchuria Railway, a post that carried leadership of all Japanese interests in Manchuria, to direct the cocky demonstration of Japan's "right to Manchuria." By last week the Manchurian job was done and Count Uchida resigned to give way to a younger Foreign Minister, Koki Hirota, onetime Ambassador...
...Kurds had massacred 600 Assyrians, he awaited, "in spite of my broken health," the arrival of a British investigator (TIME, Aug. 28). His impatience to leave for a "vacation" in Switzerland sounded, especially in view of his holiday in England only a few weeks prior, like an effort to gloss over the massacre. Last week came proof it was no such thing. The Assyrian trouble was quieted, but not a disturbance in lean, seamy-faced Feisal's heart. One afternoon in Berne, having consulted with his Foreign Minister General Nuri Pasha and his brother Prince Ali on the prospect...
This notable magazine from Yale still holds its artistic typographical gloss, but the front and back covers are nearer to each other than ever before, and the articles themselves are rather anaemic. There was a time two years ago, when the editorials in this journal of seething youth would bring noisy recognition from all quarters, but that is hardly possible in the case of the present offerings. In "Educational Meringue," an editorial on Yale's newly founded equivalent to Harvard's "History and Lit", the editor does not want to give the authorities a whole hand for breaking down...
...impressive integration of social skills than is revealed by recent trends, there can be no assurance that these alternatives with violent revolution and dark periods of repression can be averted. . . . The committee does not wish to assume an attitude of alarmist irresponsibility but it would be highly negligent to gloss over the stark and bitter realities of the social situation and to ignore the imminent perils in further advance of our heavy technical machinery over crumbling roads and shaking bridges. There are times when silence is not neutrality but assent...