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...discussion of the relative values of routes 1, 1-A, etc., it arrived about 3.30 in toto at the field of the Wheeler School which was being used for the game. The field is outside Providence and here a pleasant pastoral effect was provided by the presence in a background of fields and trees, of cows, sheep, and a herd of goats whose faintly reproachful voices were frequently raised, by some strange coincidence, directly after a foul had been committed. --Radcliffe News...
Altogether, "The Copeland Translations" is a Harvard contribution to American letters of which we may justly be proud. When we consider the scope of the work and the vast amount of reading which serves as its background, we wonder that the selection could have been accomplished, even in the several years Mr. Copeland devoted to it. It is a happy sign that he retired only from classes, not from teaching
...intimate contact with mature minds as he does in his first year. It is essential that the student should be given every aid in orientating himself immediately after entrance in order that his entire career at the University may be directed towards the development of a broad cultural background and a satisfactory command of one field of concentration...
...those of a selfish individual seeking private and greedy gain? Should a man be restricted from improving on life-saving inventions merely because an individual has secured a patent to assure his own gains? Scientists pool their knowledge. No discovery is made by an individual unaided by the vast background supplied by preceding men engaged in research. The one who culminates the achievement is more fortunate but not necessarily more worthy of credit or gain. Harvard University went further than most universities when, after this case in question was called to their attention, they adopted a resolution stating that...
...18th century, which has been the background for so many of our recent films, is again the scene of entertainment at the Fine Arts Theatre this week. The recent trend of events in Germany cannot but increase the interest that is aroused by "Power," also called in book-form, "Jew Suss." Suss as depicted by Conrad Veldt is a pioneer of Jewish emancipation in Germany. Veidt does full justice to the part, which unless capably played, is not an entirely sympathetic one. A man who subjugates every other desire, including that of love, to his desire for power is hardly...