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...China" that foreigners have known since 1927, when Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek took over the Government, was the China of the seaboard provinces. Most of it is now ruled by Japanese arms. Its capital, Nanking, centre of the web of roads, railways and airlines which Chiang Kai-shek spun across the map of China, fell to the Japanese a year ago last week. New China moved westward to Hankow and carried on. Two months ago advancing Japanese forces straddled both ends of the vital Canton-Hankow railway (completed in 1936) which skirted the western frontier of Chiang's original...
Valdemaras, known as the "Firebrand of the Baltic," was Lithuania's Premier and dictator from 1926 to 1929, when he was ousted by Smetona. In 1934 he was sentenced to twelve years' hard labor for an unsuccessful coup d'état, was later allowed to go to France where he has been living as an exile. Known as a Germanophile and Fascist, hardheaded, stiff-necked Augustine Valdemaras is also bitterly anti-Polish. Back in the late twenties he campaigned so vigorously for the return of Vilna* to Lithuania that Poland's late gruff old Marshal Pilsudski...
However "Copey," as he was affectionately known to a generation of students, will read at President Conant's Christmas Eve Party, and students of the Class of '42, keenly disappointed at the break in this tradition, are in hopes that he will come later in the year to the Union to deliver a reading from the Bible...
Stillman is known to be a poorly planned infirmary. There is not one door in the entire building wide enough to permit the passage of a bed through it; furthermore the elevator is too small to accommodate even a cot. This simply means that the really sick patients are trapped in their beds in times of emergencies, and everyone is at all times generally inconvenienced. There is a crying need for more modern equipment. Although a large sum of money was spent last summer in various improvements, this appears to be only a stop-gap measure, and Stillman's facilities...
...Richard is best known for his work with "Nature," which he has served for forty-five years as editor and assistant editor. Under his guidance it has become generally recognized as the best edited scientific magazine...