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Had Colonel Crozet been there he would have seen not 32, but some 700 cadets. He would have seen a parade ground of 14 acres, 17 stone school buildings on a lush-green campus, 19 dormitories and residences, modern engineering laboratories, the whole plant valued at $2,500,000. He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EDUCATION: Absentee | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

But Colonel Crozet was absent. Graduates had hoped to have his remains enshrined on the campus by centennial time, had sought a permit of exhumation from Shockoe Cemetery in Richmond. Few days before, Elizabeth Wright Weddell, sister of Ambassador to Argentina Alexander Weddell, turned up records of the Colonel'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EDUCATION: Absentee | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Usual course is three convulsions a week for five or six weeks. A patient is seldom given more than 20 injections, and if no improvement is noted after ten treatments, he is usually given up as hopeless.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEDICINE: Death for Sanity | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

El Comercio earned its plaque last spring when it celebrated its 100th anniversary with a 216-page issue summing up the history of Peru. A typical South American journalist is grey-haired, diminutive Dr. Miro Quesada, formerly Peru's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister to Switzerland. A successful publisher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Latins Honored | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

But what irked correspondents most was not censorship: it was the dark fog of secrecy in which the Government carried on its war. When war began, Canada set up a Bureau of Information to handle official news, then suddenly abandoned it, let each Government department appoint its own press officers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Canadian Secrecy | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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