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...stronghold of academic freedom. They may well find a resting place, if resting place it is necessary that they have, in the memorial chapel about to be. The new chapel, it is averred, will not honor in its halls the Harvard War dead who were so unfortunate as to perish on the Teuton side. The Sargent murals are in keeping with this spirit ... not with that of the finer, older and far more useful library...
Then the Bible was turned back to Proverbs 29:18 and President Hoover stooped and kissed the proverb: "Where there is no vision, the people will perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy...
...Blue room; the President waves a fond farewell to the friends from home while the Secretary of the Navy is detained in the anteroom as a suspicious character. Far away is the echo of a voice, "that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth...
...taking an examination? His mission is to receive; not to give, and the more he receives with a minimum of effort the more successful he is. What would his wanderings profit the Student Vagabond if he were to dispense such precious knowledge in so fruitless form as a bluebook? Perish the thought! And may the next infidel be confined in solitary imprisonment in Memorial Hall until he admits his error...
Since the private army of Marshal Feng unquestionably contains the Nationalist Government's "best soldiers," there is no question that the War Minister means to police Shantung with his own men. Doubtless that would be well for the desperate, starving Shantungese. If they are not to perish many a hard job must be done, just such job as Feng's tough soldiers are well schooled to do-farming, road building, weaving, dike construction, and rehabilitation of areas ravaged by China's civil...