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...needed to connect its sixth-form rooms with the nearest university. The marvelous efficiency of such a school will shriek to high heaven and yet-right glad am I to think that a beneficent providence has ensured that I shall not be called upon to act as the smallest cog in its gargantuan machinery...
...boys take their work more seriously than average U.S. students. But not all their time is spent at work. They hike and hunt, play baseball and football. One baseball team is called the Lechugas (Lettuces); another the "Guernseys." The smallest class member is nicknamed "Atomic Weight...
...continuing success of the war effort, however, the needs of the Armed Forces were growing and, correspondingly, the civilian enrollment of the University was decreasing. The bottom was reached at the beginning of the past summer term, when the total enrollment went down to 1,284 civilians, the smallest figure in 69 years, and a far cry from the peacetime averages of some 8,000 in the University...
...this last point the Guardsmen were willing to rest their case before a nation which instinctively shies from total centralization and hates militarization even more. To U.S. citizens they trumpeted the warning of the founding fathers. James Madison wrote in 1788: "On the smallest scale a standing military force has its inconveniences. On an extensive scale its consequences may be fatal . . . inauspicious to [the nation's] liberties...
...mountains above Rimini the world's smallest republic, claiming to be Europe's oldest state, with 38 square miles of mountain territory and 12,900 inhabitants, accepted its fate with dignity. San Marino's Government decided that its Army of 78 men could not oppose the Wehrmacht, yielded to the German demand to open its roads. Allied artillery replied with gunfire...