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...practical works, the U.S. had shone. Before the war, the Philippines had over 3,500 miles of first-class roads, a modern educational program, and the largest duty-free market in the world. Filipino health was about, the best in the Orient: in 35 years, cholera, smallpox and bubonic plague had been wiped out; the population had increased from seven to 16 million, and the average height of the "tao" (John Doe) from...
...long-expected warning signal came out of Germany last week. It came from Germany's roughest, toughest and second largest city, half-ruined Hamburg...
Hamburg's citizens have been normally in the vanguard of trouble. They had rioted during the 1918 Spartacus Putsch and spearheaded the abortive 1923 Communist insurrection. Hamburg once had Germany's largest percentage of Communists, later it went enthusiastically Nazi. Last week Hamburg went to extremes once more...
...heir. And not only are there law students' heirs. There are law students' wives. There are biologists' wives, and spouses and issue of veteran students from most of the University's departments, including undergraduates. When the University opened the project last April, preference was given the veterans with the largest families. Without hesitation, the two couples with children--three each--wrapped up their ikons and moved over. For the large families it was an apartment with three bedrooms at a monthly rental of $35, and for the less prolific tenants, a double-boudoired affair at five dollars less. Furniture, which...
Next fall the Student Council will "represent" the largest undergraduate body in the history of the College. University Hall will rely on this group for an accurate appraisal of undergraduate opinion on housing, tutorial, and other pressing College problems. In addition, the individual student looks to the Council for wise administration of the vast sums publicly subscribed to its Student Council Fund. But as the average undergraduate quietly subscribes his seven dollars to the Council, he should become aware of the amazingly small share of democratic control he is allowed to exercise over this Council, of the pitifully small voice...