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...honorable page in the history of the American college is that which relates to the life of men students in dormitories. It is a record of poor housekeeping, of a lack of life's amenities, of a dearth of comforts, of want of care for health and of a graver want in nursing in sickness. The beginning of an end of such a history has been made in the current year. The author of the revolution is Edward S. Harkness of New York. As wise as he is generous, he has given in separate sums and under somewhat diverse conditions...
Chinese President Chiang Kai-shek ripped open at Nanking last week an urgent telegram from Governor Chang Hsueh-liang of Manchuria: "THE SITUATION IS GROWING GRAVER EVERY MINUTE. I REQUEST INSTRUCTIONS WITH REGARD TO DEALING WITH PROVOCATIVE AND BELLIGERENT SOVIET TROOPS IN AN APPROPRIATE MANNER...
...Gordon Hewart, Baron Hewart of Bury. Mr. Chief Justice William Howard Taft of the U. S. Supreme Court introduced him. Lord Chief Justice Hewart denounced bureaucracy in government and then, once a newspaperman himself, loudly decried current tendencies in the press as menaces to society even graver than Communist propaganda. Chief Justice Taft courteously and instructively surveyed the English origins...
...75th year. I have been for the best part of half a century in public life. I was Prime Minister for a longer consecutive term and had to face graver responsibilities than any of my predecessors during the last hundred years. For a still longer time I have been leader of the Liberal Party...
Such a hope is practically rendered impotent by the fundamental difficulty of religion,--the difficulty of determining a creed which will satisfy all conceptions of the Divine Power and Purpose. In this age of individuality, this difficulty is graver than ever before; and, in the past, church unity has always split on that rock of a universal creed...