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Meanwhile the specialized department can hardly afford to gamble in such a competition where the stakes may be so grossly overrated and misrepresented by scholastic interpreters. All that is gained is superficial, and merely feeds the public and the presses with new mirages. Until Harvard can find some medium for competition other than the present basis of divisional examinations, the plan is destined to a halting fate...
...accepting Miss Lowell's collection, the University promised to keep her collection intact, and this new gift will afford it the best setting imaginable. It is intended that a room shall be set aside in Widener Library for the purpose, and supplied with furnishings like those in undergraduate rooms, if possible, with the actual furnishings of students who are graduating...
...sketches themselves are highly entertaining, and afford a pleasing contrast to the usual run of theatre offerings. Laid mostly in a Russian milieu, the acts have a character only to be compared with that of previous tours of this company...
Last week while all Budapest blew on its fingers and shivered in the cold, Vassili Martinow went to the movies. He was old and poor, and could only afford the cheapest seat, but even in the cheapest seat the Terminus Theatre was warm...
...Finally, all depends upon King Alfonso. As long as the King supports de Rivera, he will remain in power. But the moment when the King refuses to support him further, the dictator will be doomed and the regime will fall. It is to be doubted whether the King can afford to support him much longer...