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...Italian soldiers and workers sleep stark naked in the streets to escape the heat; others toil in a blistering sun without cork helmets and still others beg money from Arab sailors to buy food, which they are unable to buy with their meager...
...Italian soldiers and workers have been sent down to a steaming sun-baked port where there is hardly a tree, and water is lacking. Many of them came down without sun helmets and still dressed in their heavy European uniforms. All night long these soldiers and workers toil at discharging vessels that jam the harbor. The Italians have learned, at last, to avoid such a task as unloading ships in the day time...
...grapes. Others indicate a rather pathetic misunderstanding of the situation. It is to these last, some of whom may be among your readers, that I write. Of all the degrees given at Oglethorpe University, or by any other high-class college or university, the ones which require the hardest toil, the most strenuous application and the highest attainment, are the honorary degrees. . . . The conception underlying the conferring of honorary degrees is that the greatest university on earth is not Oxford nor Harvard nor Oglethorpe but the University of Life itself, sometimes called the University of Hard Knocks, sometimes the University...
GEORGE SARTON: Historian of science and of learning, a scholar whose relentless toil and inspired vision are creating a new academic discipline...
...death in 1923 and was almost entirely limited to academic circles. Last week Professor Arthur Livingston looked upon the publication of his translation of Pareto's four-volume masterwork as the realization of 15 years of "dreams and efforts," the fruit of 9,000 hours of personal toil, a triumph over international difficulties, and claimed the honor of having been the first to publish a U. S. note on Pareto as well as the first to complete a translation into English of his subtle and difficult writing...