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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disciplinarian, he took the unpopular post-War job of British High Commissioner to Egypt (1919-25). The thankless business of suppressing Egyptian riots is supposed to have lost him an earldom. A squarejawed, heavyset, vigorous man, he specialized in English and Spanish literature and in his collection of birds, live and dead. For special pets he had a war-horse called Hindenburg and a marabou stork...
...Conant, in the eyes of undergraduates, has placed too much emphasis on scholarship, as such. His approach is too scientific, designed for graduate schools more than for an undergraduate college. His desire to raise scholastic standards should be supported, his research is necessary if the University is to live up to its name as the greatest institution of higher learning in the United States; but the balance has been thrown off between these two and the humbler but more important tasks of teaching and inspiring all students of varying degrees of brilliance...
That the stress and strain of modern living is to blame for this increased incidence of insanity, Dr. Clarence Orion Cheney of Manhattan, the Association's retiring president, seriously doubts. "As early as 1734.'' he told his colleagues in St. Louis, "stress and strain of modern life was given as a cause of mental illness." Dr. Cheney declared there is more insanity now simply because more people live long enough to go crazy...
...general, the farther from white men the Eskimos live the healthier they remain. In spite of having "no sense whatever of sanitation," they are "remarkably free from infection." Their population is increasing and, since the Eskimo is indispensable to the fur industry, the Hudson's Bay Co. takes good care to keep him alive and healthy in Nature...
When Juanita had gone around the world as far as Hawaii she stopped. There, at Waikiki Beach, she bought a tent (she calls it "Villa Petit Peep") and settled down to live until necessity or wanderlust beckoned her further...