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Since Germany is the only land from which the British public have even the remotest fear of immediate attack, the White Paper referred to Deutschland at some length: "The British Government have noted and welcomed the declarations of leaders in Germany that they desire peace. We cannot, however, fail to recognize that not only their forces, but the spirit in which the population, especially the youth, of their, country are being organized lend color to and substantiate the general feeling which has already been incontestably generated. . . . [German] rearmament, if continued at the present rate, unabated and uncontrolled, will aggravate...
...reason for the poor and often menacing advice is the slipshod and hasty method of examination. Students are herded in and out of the offices with undue haste and the attitude of the doctors is usually one of intense boredom with the whole procedure. The average length of time spent in consultation with the doctor is about three minutes and rarely more than one or two minutes when the office is crowded. A student with a severe cough was examined by a doctor while he read a letter and hastily given a prescription for some inhalant. He was not interested...
...Abie's Irish Rose, which got to be a national habit, played 2,532 performances in New York alone, while nine companies took it on the road. But The Green Pastures had by this week become a quasireligious, semi-public U. S. institution. It had been acted the length & breadth of the land by only one company, virtually the same 75 Negroes who opened in it five years ago. And what had happened since the première made an extraordinary chapter in U. S. theatrical history...
Audiences at the world première of his 33rd full-length play in Manhattan last week found that a half century had not improved Bernard Shaw as a dramatic structuralist. Loyal Shavians were quite prepared for that, since their idol has never wasted much time on the packaging of his products. What they were not prepared for was the woefully stale and shopworn condition of the product itself...
...wide reputation as a strictly New England College, there have been on its sport teams representatives of countries scattered all over the face of this big, beautiful earth of ours. Perhaps the turkey must go to Dave Cheek, an end on the 1933 football team, who came the whole length of the Road to Mandalay to enjoy the higher education that Harvard had to offer. Dave hailed from the Straits Settlements...