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...Torgler? Last Thursday the prosecution, with self-consciousness oozing copiously from each paragraph, demanded the death by hanging of this Communist and his alleged soulmate, Vander Lubbe, and dismissed the charges against Dmitroff, Taneff, and Popoff, the Bulgarians. This far the Nazis were willing to go in the strange realm of generosity; it would have been hopelessly crude to ask for the conviction of these last three Bolsheviks, against whom only the most insignificant evidence was ever advanced. But they seem to have decided that at least one scapegoat must be retained. Van der Lubbe is not now of much...
Except for this one vague, and possibly unimportant trend toward the realm of the pure intellect, the President's views on the mechanics of an education are broad and humanistic: they admit the advantages of society's ameliorating influence; they hint at the beauties of conviviality; and most encouraging of all, they show a definite desire to perpetuate Harvard as a gentleman's retreat, rather than a gubber's paradise...
Actual Progress made at the World Conference last week was solely in the realm of wheat. The "Big Four" wheat exporting countries (U. S., Canada, Argentina, Australia) had been held up for a fortnight while Australia's dapper, grey-spatted Resident Minister in London. Stanley Melbourne Bruce, badgered his Government by cable at 40? per word to join the others in some sort of wheat acreage reduction pact (TIME, July 3). Last week, after a conference of Australia's State Premiers. Dominion Premier Lyons ("The Man from Tasmania") had good news for Mr. Bruce. Next...
...Into their midst "The Doctor" stuck his sharp propaganda harpoon. "If I may be permitted," he sneered, "to give the Centrist party a piece of gratuitous advice it is this: CLOSE YOUR SHOP. There are no more customers coming your way! If we remove the Centrist party from the realm of politics we shall have done the Catholic Church a good service." Thus incited, Nazi police raided in Berlin six Catholic organizations whose headquarters they padlocked: the Catholic Peace League; Catholic Storm Troop; Windhorst League; Flock of the Cross; Peoples Union of Catholic Germany and Catholic Young...
...testified by the popularity which it has achieved. Especially intended for teachers who can improve their methods of educating students, and work for a degree during their vacations, it has proved so successful that in 1920 a special Graduate School of Education was formed here. Psychological investigations into the realm of education, moreover, have shown that intensive short term study of one subject is an extremely efficient method of learning, and that more material can be retained by grasping the whole field at one time. Not the least of the advantages which this form of education offers are economy, appeal...