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...first meeting alter the Armistice resulted is a radical change in policy with the consequence that the fame of the Harvard Dramatic Club has ceased to be confined merely to Cambridge and Boston, but has spread through the country and even into foreign lands. Heretofore only plays by student authors or recent graduates had been presented. Now it was decided that things from foreign countries things which had never before been seen in America should form the programs of the Dramatic Club. That resolution has been faithfully followed by succeeding boards. With they exception of the revival. "Brown of Harvard...
Lawyer, provincial mayor, globetrotter, potent government official, Brillat-Savarin was yet first and foremost the Boswell to his own Johnson. While his social and convivial self toasted with discreet enjoyment the good things of the world, his meditative, whimsical alter ego was at work upon the essays here collected. Since Brillat- Savarin was rich, he had no need to print during his lifetime. He wrote at leisure, as a gourmand should, and deigned to publish in his old age a book constantly rewritten, mellowed and refined throughout his lifetime...
...year ago the annual convention, in Atlantic City (TIME, Oct. 19 et seq.), with William Green, President, with Samuel Gompers gone, was as though without vitality. President Green showed himself wary, not one to alter or elaborate the philosophy of U. S. labor that Samuel Gompers formulated...
Shrewdness was unnecessary. He continued, in all his business relations, a policy of lofty deference. Money could not alter his fibre; it merely offered him an opportunity to show his principles. He gave enormously to schools, churches, hospitals. When Vanderbilt University renounced Methodism to get a million dollars from Andrew Carnegie, he gave $2,000,000 to start the University of Atlanta. "The work of higher education," he said, "is not going to be surrendered to secularism. . . . To that Church at whose altars I receive the Christian gospel and sacraments, upon which surely I depend, I may safely entrust...
...homeliest substances would lie ready to perform potent miracles. It would be something for nothing with a vengeance. In his presidential address, Dr. James F. Norris of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Society's chief, dwelt upon this subject most optimistically. The initial energy required to alter atomic arrangements and in so doing release new energy of high intensity has been found in the X-ray tube. Synthetic fuels and lighting gases might be but one result, on a modest scale. Sugar from formaldehyde is already another. The economic implications of the power to transmute base metals would...