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Evidence that rowing, in spite of claims to the contrary, is not injurious to health, is introduced by the Harvard Alumni Bulletin in its latest issue. The Bulletin finds that fifteen of the sixteen men who rowed in the Heuley Regatta on the English Thames twenty years ago are still living and in good health...
...nations that have risen from the War Czechoslovakia is most despised by her neighbors, for this rich territory was won not by blood and battle but by picking winners before the peace conference. Because she is rich industrially her people have remained placid. Sixteen years after her foundation Czechoslovakia is an island of real democracy in a turbulent sea of black, brown and green dictatorships. Citizens of Prague have more freedom of expression, more personal liberty than in any other post-War state...
...Union Parisienne. The Russians made a brief call on Paris and came back to St., Petersburg with money with which to pay for Schneider armaments. From that time until, in 1918, the Soviet government of Russia expressed its official uninterest in paying the debts of the Czarist regime, sixteen billion gold francs, drained slowly from the savings of the French people, were loaned to Russia, secured by bonds that have long since been tossed on the rubbish heap. Most of the profit in the sixteen billion found its way back to Schneider-Creusot and is today in their factories...
...publishing the list of new proctors who are to occupy the Yard and other dormitories next fall, the University shows evidence that it has again attempted to secure an excellent staff to fill these much coveted positions. The selection of the sixteen new proctors is characterized by a nice discrimination between the scholar and the athlete, nor has the prominent man benefited to the exclusion of the less well-known individual. Likewise the inclusion of several non-Harvard graduates shows that President Conant's policy of geographical representation is being followed in the proctorial as well as undergraduate sphere...
...Almost sixteen years ago the Armistice was signed. Before very long, a new generation will be taking over the reins of power the world over. Is there any sense in letting an agreement made when the war was still in the minds of every man and woman continue to create bitterness among peoples who have no real quarrel with each other? The jealousy and distrust with which defaulting nations are coming to regard the United States is most unfortunate. To the youth of America is seems unfair that one of the latent causes of future wars is nothing more than...