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...Faculty of the University. As Chairman of the English department, professor, and author, with a distinguished career behind him and a bright future ahead, he has served Harvard faithfully and well for four years. The Faculty of the University in general, the English Department in particular, can ill afford the departure of so eminent a scholar and educator. While deploring Harvard's unfortunate loss, the University of California must be congratulated on having acquired Professor Tatlock. His absence will be felt here, but being unavoidable it can only be hoped that he will help bridge the gap which...
Significance. Clearly the Agent General's report supplies the Allied Powers with ample data from which to argue that Germany can well afford to pay her pound of flesh. But even Shylock experts will not lose sight of three arresting facts...
...dance is good enough, the expense will have little effect on the numbers. Now the requirements for a good dance are a good hall and a good orchestra. Memorial Hall would dampen anyone's enthusiasm. Why not have the Prom at some attractive ballroom? If the Gaydon Club can afford it, certainly the much larger Junior Class can afford it. It seems to me that an announcement by the 1930 Prom Committee of a good orchestra in a good ballroom would do much to revive the waning interest of the Juniors in their one big unified social endeavor. Sincerely yours...
...resemblances, she was the very opposite of her most dangerous enemy-the weaving spider of the Escurial. Both were masters of dissimulation and lovers of delay; but the leaden foot of Philip was the symptom of a dying organism, while Elizabeth temporized for the contrary reason-because vitality can afford to wait. The fierce old hen sat still, brooding over the English nation, whose pullulating energies were coming swiftly to ripeness and unity under her wings. She sat still; but every feather bristled; she was tremendously alive...
...season research is conducted at the Harvard Medical School. It is a very difficult disease to work with, as it is transmitted by invisible bacteria, so small that they pass through the finest filters. Monkeys are the only animals that take the disease, so they and convalescing patients afford the only possible sources of a serum cure...