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Presented to the University by more than 1000 Chinese alumni during the Tercentennial celebration in 1936, the monument belonged originally to Emperor Chia Ch'ing, of the Ch'ing dynasty. The emperor presented it to one of his favorite governors in the year 1810, and it remained in China until the Tercentenary, when Dr. J. Heng Lin '09, of Nanking, purchased it as a gift for Harvard, in recognition of the educational contributions of America's oldest college...
...secured for its supply establishments a good portion of the Riviera land of pink oleander, grassy seaside terraces, garden walls, pastel villas, lush shrubbery, handsome estates, hyacinths, white beaches and mountain roads that hang like cornices over the cliffs and sea. Already Allied fighter planes were fly ing from southern France...
...Army press officers in London had insisted that Lieut. General Lesley J. Mc-Nair, trainer of the Army's ground fight ing forces, had been killed by the enemy. But too many-people knew better, and last week the tragic truth came out. Able, respected "Whitey" McNair had been killed by a bomb dropped from a U.S. plane...
...Fund, in effect, is merely a shock absorber. It can neither make rough roads smooth nor compensate for reckless driv ing. None of the delegates at Bretton Woods believed that it would solve the problem of getting payment for U.S. goods if the U.S. tries to export goods while it blocks imports by high tariffs. But believing that the roads are certain to be rough, the delegates felt there was all the more need for shock absorbers-to save the whole world from being jarred by every thank-you-ma'am that each nation hits...
...Luck, Again. On the sunny after noon of June 1, the Anglo-American Air Force staked off a natural landing field for transport planes to take some 40 of us Allies to Italy. But on the following morn ing, the din of the fighting came closer, German stray shells dropped into the val ley, and we picked another natural field for June 2. No luck, again. Just as the tightlipped, bomb-scarred squadron leader was measuring off the new landing ground, machine guns burst out on a nearby hill and the order came, "Pokret." The Germans, guided by the Chetniks...