Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, in Edinburgh, Scotland, Mrs. Jessie Wallace Jordan, a 51-year-old British-born hairdresser who became a German citizen by marriage, was tried for espionage. Main evidence against Mrs. Jordan was her sketches of certain unidentified County of Fife fortifications (presumably a huge aviation training airdrome at Leuchars, near Dundee, or a submarine base at Rosyth on the Firth of Forth). With 42 Crown witnesses ready to testify against her, Hairdresser Jordan changed her plea to guilty, was sentenced to four years' hard labor. Startling was the connection between this sober bit of Scottish espionage and the slapstick...
There are two main reasons why Adolf Hitler should think twice before taking any cue from newsprint polemics and moving armed forces to aid his German racial comrades in the Sudeten territory. The first is that he knows that the Czechs, who have been preparing for 15 years for just such an eventuality, would turn their full-armed strength of 1,500,000 men into the field. The second is that invasion of Czechoslovakia by Hitler would almost certainly bring France, the Soviet Union, and probably Britain rushing to the aid of the Czechs...
...good sample of the work in the field, and is within easy grasp of anyone who has had no previous experience. It may be dropped at midyears if the student so desires. The second half, Sociology Ab, is a study of cultural and a survey of the main theories of cultural change. Sorokin, one of the foremost sociologists of the country, gives rather one-sided but interesting and sometimes startling views, and since the section men clarify and counter-balance them adequately, the lectures are well worth while. The course is highly recommended for non-concentrators...
...Besides the financial activities of the Council, which are treated in the report of the Treasurer, the main efforts this year, as in the past, have been divided between the administration of college affairs and independent reports. The major investigations turned this year to the problems of advancement in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. . . . The Council of years to come would do well to follow up the budgetary report, and attempt to insure a roughly even distribution of funds. As the situation now stands, both the students and instructors in the Social Sciences are definitely at a disadvantage...
...idealistic conception of student government as a training for democracy and citizenship in the future seems to me out of place at Harvard College. Students have come to Harvard--or at least should have come to Harvard--primarily to be students, and the Student Council should consider it its main duty to see that they are aided in every way as students. Perhaps its most important function is that of watch-dog on University educational policies, but certainly an important duty is to attempt to keep at a minimum the formalities of student government...