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...necessary to create a new society in Cambridge? What is there new in the situation that calls for such a radical step? The new element is the gradual evolution of Harvard from a compact New England academy in a quiet town to a cosmopolitan university within eight minutes of the center of an urban population of some two million souls. Harvard life has become diversified and shot through with every sort of human interest and divergent aim so that an individual student can see only a small portion of it all. He cannot see the woods for the trees. Life...
...most distinguished citizens after they have died.* Than the late, great La Follette, no noble Roman ever had a greater passion for justice or a greater vigor in its pur suit. His outward aspect, the material of sculpture, mirrored the temper of the man. He was compact, robust, wiry, alive with energy. His head was squarely, ruggedly shaped, with abundant hair swooping up in a reckless, leonine pompadour. He dressed with what Sculptor Davidson called "careless fastidiousness." Indicative of inward sensitiveness, his fingers were long and slender; his feet, always in glossy shoes, were unusually small...
Seligman Trust. Thus the specialty Investment Trust, actual and rumored. Last month saw also the formation of a general Investment Trust, a smaller, more compact example of the species. This was the Tri-Continental Corp. sponsored by the house of J. & W. Seligman, famed international bankers. It is capitalized at $50,000,000, has no specific field of interest. It has offered 1,000,000 shares of no par common stock at $27; a $25,000,000 issue of 6%, cumulative preferred stock with warrants...
...Volpone" leaves an impression of the same compact thought and fertile gesture that made rich its three predecessors. What makes it principally worth seeing is the rare after-pleasure of dramatic entity...
Chile. Astute observers have called Chileans the Prussians of South America. The comparison is worth remembering. Here is a compact, militant, intensely nationalist people. Though considerably less in number than the residents of New York City, Chileans command official parity among the Great Powers. Thus the U.S. sends an ambassador to 4,000,000 alert Chileans but has never sent more than a minister to 400,000,000 spineless Chinese (see China...