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...soil range and 2) rainfall increases toward the seaboard where it is most needed. In Russia, the mean temperatures are much lower and rainfall is only moderately higher in the poor-soil areas of the north. In the U.S., climatic factors become more favorable as soil gets poorer; in the U.S.S.R. soil and climate become less favorable together. Agriculturally, Russia runs the wrong...
During the era of President Eliot there were three distinct social strata: the poorer students who lived in Cambridge's numerous "boarding houses", the middle class students who lived in the more expensive Yard dormitories, and the "Gold Coasters" who lived in the privately owned Westmorely Court, Randolph Hall, Apley Court, Claverly, and Dudley...
...seem to have the larger share of starting handicaps. Nineteen percent of them were illegitimate, as against 13% of the non-delinquents. Nineteen percent had mentally retarded fathers and 33% had retarded mothers, as against 6% and 9% for the non-delinquents. The delinquents' parents were less congenial, poorer workers, more erratic, abusive, and neglectful of their children. Their brothers and sisters were twice as apt to be retarded or delinquent as the brothers and sisters of non-delinquents. Nearly 50 times as many delinquents as non-delinquents had at one time or another run away from home...
Reliable sources hold that "The Day After Tomorrow" is now enjoying success in London under a different name. If this is true, conditions are probably poorer in England than most of us realize...
Collectivization of agriculture has been pushed against stiff opposition from the peasants. Usual Communist procedure is to start an agricultural cooperative among the poorer peasants of a village. The others are denounced as "village rich," badgered by inspectors, have their machinery confiscated until they submit...