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Dates: during 1930-1939
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CRAIG THORN Hudson, N...
...King Edward's invitation to Mustafa Kamal Ataturk to visit His Majesty in Buckingham Palace was last week the subject of a diplomatic note in which the Turkish Dictator intimated that he might not find it "practicable" to come but would send Turkish Premier Ismet Inönü. After correspondents had talked with agitated officials of the British Foreign Office. United Press reported: "Edward's invitation was extended without the Government's knowledge. . . . Perplexed British diplomats point out that while they are pleased with improvement in recent Anglo-Turkish relations they can see no tangible topics...
Most famed educational wanderer is Adirondack-Florida School, which opened last fortnight in cabins on the shore of Clear Pond near Onchiota, N. Y. After the Christmas holiday Headmaster Kenneth Wilson, a onetime Princeton instructor, will move his 24 pupils and six tutors to Coconut Grove, Fla. Swank Adirondack-Florida specializes in outdoor life, provides canoes in the Adirondacks, a beach and 35-ft. cruising sloop in Florida. Tuition is $1,500 plus extras. Enrolled there this year are George Nichols, grandson of J. P. Morgan, and Drayton Phillips, son of William Phillips, U. S. Ambassador to Rome. Alumni include...
...Colgate University (Hamilton, N. Y.), irritated President George Barton Cutten barked at his incoming freshmen: "We have heard a lot and read reams about the predatory rich, but is it not time that someone said something about the parasitic pauper? . . . A parasite thinks the world owes him a living. . . . During nine months of prenatal life, and years of infancy, a person acquires parasitic habits. . . . The parasite has never been properly weaned psychologically and he is always hunting around for a nipple...
...would also like to congratulate publicly the undergraduate speakers, R. T. Fels, N. L. Cahners, and E. O. Miller for both the content of their speeches and the manner of delivery. It has seemed to many of us that no part in the entire three-day program added more to Harvard's future than the carefully worded thoughts of these gentlemen. They must have been satisfied by the rapt attention of the audience and the plaudits they received; but even so, what they said we may hope will live on to aid in the growth of Harvard in the future...