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...successfully inaugurated "college travel." That they somewhat disparaged the proposed rival cruise of the Aurania by calling the latter mere "Educational travel" was understandable in view of the for- wardness with which the Aurania backers advertised their scheme, identifying it with the Ryndam cruise as if to shoulder the Uni- versity Travel Association's projected repetition into obscurity. But The Binnacle of the S. S. Ryndam had the honesty to report the remark of a shrewd student: "The idea of college travel is so much bigger than the men who have thus far been behind it that the idea will...
...Harris '20, formerly an instructor in economics at Harvard, has been appointed an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Cornell Uni-Brookline...
...young at 37. He has the same pioneering blood zooming through his arteries as have the youthful Air Secretaries Davison and Warner. With these three men in Washington, U. S. aviation is expected to emerge from the blimp era. Secretary MacCracken is a Chicagoan by birth, education, residence. The Uni versity of Chicago taught him letters and law. In the Army he taught flying at Houston and Waco, Texas. After the War he returned home, practiced law, be came Secretary of the American Bar Association. His specialty is aeronautic law. He helped formulate the Air Commerce Act, recent ly enacted...
Moreover, the uni-continental theory has too many historic possibilities to be lightly tossed aside. It is at once the key to the vexatious problem of the migration of the Indians from Asia to America and the mysterious disappearance of the fabled Atlantis, which Plate mentions as being just beyond the Gates of Hercules in his time. Perhaps in the future when American history is no longer honeycombed with patriotic myths, school-children in addition to learning that the Pilgrims did not and on Plymouth Rock, will also be taught that Columbus sailed west, not because he thought the World...
...students and faculty assembled for chapel service, a spokesman addressed Dr. McKenzie, declared that he must reinstate the five, or all Fisk students would "strike". Dr. McKenzie refused to budge from his decision. A solemn ballot was taken ; a large percentage of the undergraduates voted to withdraw from the Uni- versity. Some hurried to pack their trunks; some loitered, talking excitedly, in the streets of Nashville; some composed a telegram to Lawyer Cravath...