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...years higher education in Oregon has resembled a dogfight. In 1929 Oregon statesmen decided to end the long, bitter rivalry between University of Oregon at Eugene and Oregon State Agricultural College at Corvallis by lumping them with the State's three normal schools in one big happy family. Their curious method of furthering this pacification was to appoint William Jasper Kerr, longtime President of Oregon State, to be Chancellor of the new setup...
...champagne business, General von Ribbentrop has plenty of friends in London, even a good many in Paris, and speaks nearly flawless English and French. He has been making the rounds of Europe's capitals in a convivial sort of way year after year, snubbed by some statesmen but warmly received by others, and exuding an air of intimacy with Adolf Hitler who was known to have given him no diplomatic status but the interesting title "Special Commissioner for Disarmament Questions...
...chuffing train from Athens U. S. Minister Lincoln MacVeagh and a quorum of the Greek Cabinet traveled up last week to the northern seaport of Salonika. Base of Allied operations during the War, Salonika was shelled again during the abortive Venizelist revolt last March. This time, however, diplomats and statesmen were going north on a more peaceful mission-to honor one of the most permanent institutions in the Balkans, bearded little old John Henry House of the American Farm School in Salonika...
...country in giving the power to appoint and promote almost exclusively to the body of full professors in each school. The President has only a power of veto which has for obvious reasons been used put rarely. In practice this system has meant that the so-called "elder statesmen" in each department away the destinies of those among the lower ranks and of those who hope for appointment...
Noting that British airplane stocks are already soaring, Stanley Baldwin last week added: "I hope there will be no profiteering in a time we might call an emergency. ... I have been made almost physically sick to think that I and other statesmen of Europe should, 2,000 years after Christ was crucified, be spending our time thinking how we can take the mangled bodies of children to hospitals and how we can keep poison gas from going down the throats of people...