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...bushy black beard handled the gavel as the Assembly of the League of Nations met in Geneva, last week, to talk "Security," "Disarmament" and then the "United States of Europe." P. is for Persia and alphabetically it was P.'s turn to preside. Nervously Persia's swart Prince Mirza Mohammed Ali Khan Foroughi assumed the chair. Perspiring, he constantly wiped his brow with a bright pink silk handkerchief. Then diffidently, as though conscious that the words of a Prince were as chaff to these commoners, he sped the Assembly's, proceedings with a dash of Orient philosophy thus...
Likewise significant are the recent visits, to Angora (Turkish Capital) of the Persian Foreign Minister Mirza Abdul Hussein Khan Timurtash and the Chinese Minister to the U. S., Dr. Sao-ke Alfred...
...series of Persian Letters, the CRIMSON has emphasized the same fundamental defect in the schedule of things which pass current for education. Mirza wrote to his friend Usbek: "My observation convinces me that, in spite of all their pother and noisy activity, few of these young men really know what they are about. Their universal rule seems to be: 'Do something. Get busy. Fill the hour. Make every minute count--never mind what it counts for--and in four years the magic of hustle-bustle will transform us into educated...
...systems assume a false uniformity. The unit of education is the individual, and the great problem of education is to awaken him. I believe the high reputation Dravrah has in the outside world rests on just this: that they really see the problem, and are trying to solve it. Mirza...
...very discouraged, my dear Usbek, and unless I soon discover some justification for the claim they make here at Dravrah that they educate men. I shall have to conclude that they don't. Mirza...