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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first two weeks of French mobilization were featured by unholy traffic jams and messes. Aghast, however, was Paris last week to learn that, if war had come, a large, percentage of the capital's population would have lacked gas masks-a fine French scandal for which no culprit or scapegoat had been found up to this week. Meanwhile, energetic, square-jawed Radical Socialist Premier Edouard Daladier was greeted by the French Chamber of Deputies with a vote of confidence in what he did at Munich, 535-to-75-nearly all the dissenters being Communists...
...Cadet who gave his names as Stanley C. Scott, from Fort Belvoir, Virginia, will ride "Mr. Jackson," for the two understand each other. As the Honorable Colon (Colonel?) Alfaro, Ecuatdorean Ambassador, presented "Poncho" to the Corps, it is not too surprising to learn that it has been arranged that little Cadet Elroy Alfaro, son of sire Colon, will ride "Poncho...
Criticizing the University for trying to develop "the exceptional man," he declared that "if Harvard could learn anything" it might turn toward "developing graduates who are a pleasant, helpful part of life in a world where modern communication and transportation have broken down geographical boundaries to a point of distraction, with the resultant effort turning back to the centripetal, toward a homogeneity and congeniality, and no longer centrifugal toward ascendency and exceptionalism...
...kind of mascot. His home and native element was Montmartre. Biographer Mack has tried conscientiously but has failed to reanimate this legendary quarter. He ploughs without inspiration through genealogies of the successive owners of peripheral café-concerts where Lautrec occasionally had a drink. It is interesting to learn that Jane Avril, the delicate dancer of the Moulin Rouge whose skull-like face Lautrec loved to draw, still lives and remembers him. Mr. Mack's research on other entertainers and sporting characters is praiseworthy and necessary. But Lautrec's garish, glamorous and vicious milieu remains sunk beneath...
...American Legion parade on Thursday night. "Boys will be boys," but they are admitted to college on the supposition that they are growing up and can at least simulate adult behavior. Tomfoolery such as took place on this occasion has no place at Harvard and Freshmen will have to learn this, even at the expense of their college standing...