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Last year it was decided to discontinue the correlation exams. Although considered unsuccessful, they had at least demanded a general knowledge of social sciences and some ability in combining the material of two different fields, which is more than can be said for the compulsory advanced course. The fact that History concentrators are spared suggests that the course was decided upon, not as a final settlement of the problem but just as some kind of a substitute for an exam which the student was no longer forced to take...
...British opened China to Western trade by force," he said. "We profited by their use of force. Our open door policy is essentially the British policy. Now that the French and British are unable to do much in China, we will have to implement by force the open door policy, or we will have to abandon...
...authority on the Far Eastern situation, Fairbank said that the United States has no way of using direct force to protect its interest. The country has inadequate naval power in the Orient...
Queerest-looking of the lot was Vice President Alexander Hamilton Stephens, one of Georgia's most brilliant lawyers, an admirer of Lincoln and Davis' bitterest foe. Weighing around 90 Ibs., hollow-chested, skeleton-faced, he was so tiny that a fellow-traveler once said to him: "Sonny, get up and give your seat to the gentleman." He read the Anatomy of Melancholy for his violent fits of blues, once cried out: "What have I not suffered from a look!" His good pal was hulking, roundheaded, roaring, witty, Rabelaisian Secretary of State Robert Toombs, great orator and charmer...
Post 47 of the American Legion, in a resolution addressed to President Seymour, said that since Browser "been exposed through the Dies Committee as a man definitely linked with Stalin and Russian ideology," he should not be given "the courtesy and protection" of Yale until he has been exonerated of the charges...