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Last summer Robert Paine Scripps suffered a throat hemorrhage shortly after he arrived in Honolulu aboard his trim ketch Novia Del Mar. Mr. Scripps, frail in his youth but strong in later years, confided to friends that he feared he would some day bleed to death. Last week that grave fear became a fearful fact. Stricken with another hemorrhage while his yacht rolled in Magdalena Bay, Lower California, Robert Scripps died...
...pleased with the recent report of Franklin Roosevelt's Advisory Committee on Education. That committee, to overcome the long-standing objection of Catholics to Federal aid, incorporated in its recommendations a proviso that Federal money be also made available for the education of children in parochial schools (TIME, Mar. 7). To Protestant educators, who hate and fear Catholic influence in education, that recommendation last week was like a red flag...
Providence, R.I., Mar. 3--Declaring that he had been criticized at Harvard because he insisted on teaching a course with emphasis on its modern practical aspects rather than on its purely factual and historical content, Kirsopp Lake former professor of History at Harvard, delivered an address on American education to the Rhode Island Alpha of Phi Beta Kappa last night...
Montreal, Mar. 3 -- Last evening about 400 McGill students at a meeting of the student society decided to rescind a former motion which opened the McGill Union to an address by the Communist speaker Tim Buck...
Shanghai, Mar. 3--Ts Vung Soong, Harvard class of 1915, who was yesterday commissioned chief of the Chinese air force, replacing his sister, Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek, told reporters today that he would try to effect a reorganization of his country's aerial defense...