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Kiths & Climate. Out of the vast, miscellaneous welter of Huntington's ideas, a few will certainly live. One is the concept of "kiths," a main feature of his book. Huntington defined a kith as "a group of people relatively homogeneous in language and culture, and freely intermarrying with one another." He traced the careers of many influential kiths, including the Jews, the Puritan New Englanders, the Mongols, the Hakkas of South China...
With Lamont Library still in the erector set stage, the failure of Widener as an undergraduate library must continue to irritate students for the majority of their college tenure. Widener was planned exclusively as a research institution and stumbles into a welter of malfunctions when trying to cope with college needs. These inefficiencies comes as a direct result of an unequal scramble for books between undergraduates and research students and a poorly organized circulation system. Until Lamont Library provides the answer to College reference work, an interim system emphasizing student requirements rather than those of the 1500 men holding stack...
...ramifications and connotations of "liberal education" are so profuse that the term itself needs redefinition. When teachers colleges, technical colleges, large state colleges all issue B.A. 's, what is the common denominator of a liberal education? In this welter of educational institutions, what is the proper role of a college such as Harvard...
While Russian and American newsmen comment fiercely on each other's origin and the United Nations becomes snarled in a welter of tedious recriminations, a vicious behind-the-scenes economic battle comes far closer to splitting the East and West than any so-called ideological warfare. Iran, keystone of an important Anglo-American oil reservoir, is the stage for an oil dispute that threatens to boil over momentarily. Skittish over Russian expansion towards the Persian Gulf, the United States has influenced Iran to disavow a proposed oil-rights contract with Russia in a move that has Moscow frothing. This most...
...writer's jab-&-smash jargon. It is jerky, often ungrammatical, unblushingly awkward: "The enemy's vitals had been pierced. An Armored poniard was stabbed squarely in the middle of his rear and athwart his main line of communications. . . . The enemy was beset from every quarter in a welter of triphammer blows, chaos, death, and destruction. On the ground and in the air he was mauled and ravaged from every side. . . . Third Army's eviscerating dagger remained pinned and unblunted in their lacerated flank...