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...should not have professed a belief in America's ideals, in American etiquette, and then so grossly broken them by making your bribe public, by giving your letter to the press before it reached President Conant. Was this consistent with sincere, alumna generosity? Isn't it just a bit too obvious? Certainly, Herr Hanfstaengl, for one who represents the wiles of European diplomacy, your methods are remarkably crude. Can Harvard accept your offer under all these conditions? If it does, it will be an eye-opener to more than one trusting American. Charles L. Whipple, Allen K. Philbrick...
...Medicine. Chemist Borodin was 28 before he joined the powerful coterie composed of Balakirev, Cui. Rimsky-Korsakov and Mussorgsky, united in an ideal to restore to Russian music its nationalist essence. Borodin had less time than the others. His home adjoined the medical school. He would work a bit at the piano, then race through the corridors to see how a test tube was behaving. Daytimes he devoted to his medical lectures, to founding and organizing a medical school for women. He called himself a Sunday musician because holidays gave him his only chance for composing. Nights he minded...
...merry undergraduates are enthuslastic about those changes in exams, probation, and attendance that the College has made. Possibly they are a bit too Bolshevistic. Anyway, the following remark was made by an apparently abused oarsman the other day: "Say, I'm going to sue the College before they have nothing but a few optional lectures to offer a guy. These days a fellow has got to get his money's worth...
...Mine" is the assertive title that forcefully depicts the feelings of Irene Dunne and Constance Cummings, wife and mistress respectively, concerning Ralph Bellamy. The piece is capably acted and contains some very amusing dialogue; and, although the central idea is a serious one, the general result is an interesting bit of light entertainment that rounds out a decidedly good program...
Western Union's President Roy Barton White, an oldtime railroad telegrapher who rose to run Central R.R. of New Jersey, had hung out the first bit of dirty linen by sending telegrams to his big customers, inviting them to protest and declaring that for all intents & purposes the President's Code was Postal's code. Bitterly he lashed the proposed fair practice clauses which minutely regulate leased wires, exclusive contracts and special services. At last week's hearings he thundered: "We strenuously object to injecting in the long-established rate arrangement . . . provisions which we know will...