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...behavior of the Oxford Union last week was more than a campus scandal. To the whole rugged, wealthy British upper middle class (not to mention the peerage & landed gentry) it was a national calamity. They had known that the Oxford Union, that famed debating society which is the traditional school for British statesmen, has been increasingly attended by studious greasy grinds, apt to be Laborites. But what indeed was the Empire coming to when the Union sank so low last week as to adopt by a vote of 275-to-153 this proposition...
...Your mention of the Indian climbing perch is interesting but inaccurate (TIME. Feb. 6). People, including scientists, ''know" why it wants to go overland as well as they know countless other facts about fauna...
...Duce has steadily emerged as Italy's years have grown leaner. "Our economic life must be simplified!" he announced in 1931. Since then he has simplified with a vengeance. Not to mention Italy's shipping lines which most people know have been merged into one vast monopoly with bonds guaranteed by the State, Il Duce has dynamically simplified the steel, iron, milling, textile, silk, rayon and other trades into a constellation of unified industries whose sun is the Dictator. With the Kingdom's foreign trade shrunk by Depression to approximately half its volume of three years...
...answering your questionnaire as briefly as possible, but I will ask that in evaluating the replies these considerations be kept in mind. I should also mention that although I have been very deeply interested in the Tutorial system as it is worked out in the Division of Biology, my direct contact with it has extended the Tutorial system in such a way as to bridge over the gap between the treatment of mature undergraduates and graduate students...
...mention a number of colleges in which the co-operative scheme of student housing and eating has been or is being developed. Iowa State College at Ames is probably one of the pioneers in this work. In 1924 the first experiment was made in a house caring for 16 girls. The scheme worked so well . . . that one of the regular dormitories housing 65 women was opened on a co-operative basis. The girls did all the work in the hall under the supervision of a housemother. By the fall of 1931 it seemed expedient to open another co-operative hall...