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Most fascinating of new "New China's" educational institutions are those now operating at Yenan, "capital" of the northern, Communist-held territory. At Yenan now are the Anti-Japanese University, the North Shensi Academy (training school for guerrilla-war organizers), the Marxist & Leninist University, the Lo Shun Art Academy, the School of Dramatic Art (directed by Shanghai's top-rank cinemactress). There were few buildings in Yenan to house the schools but in the hard-packed loess hillsides, students gouged cave classrooms and dormitories (see cut). There 4,000 men, 1,000 women, more than there...
That they entered their wrath and their attack on an educational institution is highly unfortunate. Any unprejudiced analysis has always shown that Harvard leans over backward to shun official political relationships. To bellow that Harvard has a desire to rule Cambridge, and that therefore it must, like some naughty school boy, be expelled from the community, serves only to show the political hue of the picture. The council's cunning brush is attempting to swab Harvard with such brilliant and tawdry colors, that beside it Plan E may look dull, important, and anaemic on the ballot...
...underwriting. Tri-Continental and Selected Industries have occasionally participated in the underwritings of new issues in a very small way; Atlas Corp. has done the same. Paradoxically, last week when Tri-Continental and Selected Industries finally went whole hog into underwriting, they declared that Union Securities Corp. would shun the practice that has been the No. 1 argument for investment trusts going into underwriting-that they can absorb on behalf of their stockholders the remainder of any issue that the public refuses...
When the campaign began, all three candidates by tacit consent tried to shun the one big State issue which might have made the campaign more complex: the trans-Florida ship canal, which north Florida wants, and south Florida fears. But by last week. Claude Pepper, deciding most of his votes will come from north Florida anyway, told citizens of that section he was strong for the canal, accused Messrs. Sholtz & Wilcox of "pussyfooting...
...nature of the occupation of a man for whom a girl sets her cap. The girl who has worked before marriage is a much better risk than one who has not. A teacher or skilled office worker is likely to make a good wife. But swains should shun the girl who has changed jobs frequently...