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Recent study of Walt Whitman manuscripts has disclosed a number of significant unpublished documents, portions of which are presented in this book to afford opportunity for a firsthand study of Whitman's ideas and working methods. The introduction and notes aim to throw light upon the history and interpretation of the material but not to interfere in any way with allowing Whitman to speak for himself...
...will occupy the first dormitory unit will be made by the University authorities, and will be of necessity more or less arbitrary." The report of the Student Council's committee will be closely watched for recommendations on this problem. From the plan's present artificial cross-sectioning Harvard can afford to sacrifice a good deal of the appearance of democracy. The House must never become a temple to a new pantheon of Balanced Forces...
...portrait has always remained in the family. But last week Baron Chesham, Lady Betty's great grandson, decided he could afford to part with it. For Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries offered more than $500,000 on behalf of an anonymous U. S. collector, record price for a Reynolds...
...that we can afford is Service. . . . Was I right or wrong . . . when I harried the finest papermaking organization in Great Britain till it produced me, at what expense is only Britannia's business, this...
Such methods as those to which Mr. Cohen has stooped are cheap, idle and ineffectual. They are unbecoming enough to anyone in political argument but especially so in his case; as publicity manager of the "Harvard Thomas-for-President Club" he can ill-afford with his meager following of a hundred, to give the impression that his party sanctions the use of such weapons...