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...more picturesque than accurate. For instance, there may be a million rats in Monrovia but I have been there twice and I can only say that I never saw one. Again, you state that the Liberian Government has "never succeeded in controlling the million or more Afro-Africans who inhabit Liberia's 43,000 square miles of equatorial jungle." On the contrary, the natives, with the exception of the independent and frequently turbulent Krus, are remarkably peaceful and even in the case of the Krus there is more than a suspicion that their uprising has been inspired by outside agitators...
...there is a ship sailing for the African West Coast within a month, luckier still if the emissary reaches Monrovia in less than another month. 3) When the emissary lands in a surf boat at Liberia's harborless capital, he finds a dirty, ramshackle tropical town whose inhabitants consist of about 100 whites, 10,000 blacks, and 1,000,000 rats, where a one-year tour of duty is considered the equivalent of three years at Warsaw or Moscow. 4) The emissary's job is to deal with a Government controlled by perhaps 20,000 purse-proud Afro...
...corporation registry of Lugene (swank Manhattan opticians) all list him as Frederic Grosvenor Carnochan. Always well off, he could afford to become an amateur ethnologist. During the past decade he concentrated on the Wanyamwesi, a long-nosed, curly-haired tribe of 4,000,000 members who inhabit 30,000 sq. mi. south of Lake Victoria (in Tanganyika Territory, which Premier Hertzog of the Union of South Africa fortnight ago suggested Great Britain should return to Germany's control...
...first time since 1913 the directory includes a geographical summary, which shows that of the 62,020 living alumni whose addresses are known, 58,933 inhabit the United States proper, 201 reside in its torritories and possessions, and 2,706 now live in 73 foreign countries...
What is of concern to us who inhabit the secluded sports of Cambridge is the fact that all possible objection of scheduling a game with the Joliet Zobras has now been removed. The millennium has arrived and the code of fair competition has now been instituted; when will a home and home agreement be arranged? It is possible that after the game members of the visiting teams might become confused and forget to leave, but exchange scholars are smiled upon in all universities. A little leavening with the loaf is not a bad idea, and a touch of Middle Western...