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During the Reading and Examination periods the prompt return of reserved books, taken from the College Library or Boylston Hall, is obviously necessary. These libraries are open at 8.45 o'clock A. M., and books should be returned by 9 o'clock. Students returning books late will be deprived of the privilege of taking out reserved books...
...result has been that a hundred or more correspondents and camera men are gnawing their fingernails at Addis Ababa, Harar and Dire Dawa knowing less about the fighting they are supposed to be covering than the newspaper reader in New York who, at least, has prompt news from the Italian side. . . . "Correspondents have little hope that the postponed journey to Dessye with Emperor Haile Selassie will be more colorful than a highly interesting Cook's tour, with no possibility of seeing action, since the correspondents, whom Premier Benito Mussolini does not want harmed, presumably will be an effective bodyguard...
...estimates the number of his voluntary collaborators at close to 100,000. Portentous is the first of their contributions to appear, on page 40 of Vol. I, published in 1926. It is embodied in a footnote dropped from a sentence beginning: "The American temperament included adaptiveness, a willingness more prompt than among other peoples to dismiss the old and try the new. . . ." The footnote: "Mr. Herbert Hoover thinks this point should be emphasized. . . ." "The Twenties." Like its five best selling predecessors, "The Twenties" is lively, readable, honest, superficial, rich in color, anecdote and detail. Occasionally bumbling in literary style...
...just as well have been shot a few years ago as pro-Bolshevik. As recently as 1928 he was hobnobbing in Moscow. Soviet gold financed the Chinese civil war which enabled General Chiang to set up the Nanking Government with himself as Dictator (TIME, April 25, 1927). This week prompt Japanese rage at Nanking's fresh talk of Russia erupted in grim remarks by Japanese militarists that at the first real sign of a Nanking switchback toward Moscow, soldiers of the Divine Emperor will drive a Japanese wedge of conquest between the Soviet Union and China by seizing border...
Austria was represented at Geneva last week by eloquent old Herr Emeric von Pflüql. Referring to Il Duce's prompt massing of Italian troops on the frontier of Austria, which prevented the backers of Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss' assassins from seizing the Government (TIME, Aug. 6, 1934), snowy-haired Delegate von Pflüql cried: "Austria will never forget that at a fateful moment in her history it was Italy who, in the best spirit of the League Covenant, helped by her attitude to safeguard the integrity of another League member, my country. Our friendship with Italy...