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...athletic plant at Harvard. Despite the growing importance of inter-House sports, he feels that intercollegiate competition is still an essential part of the athletic program. He refuses to dismiss coaches merely because their teams have a few bad seasons. Although Harvard has pursued an athletic policy which, in comparison with those of other institutions, has been the epitome of sanity, Bingham is probably unique among athletic directors in admitting that in the years of million dollar gate receipts-money flowed too freely even at Harvard. With the reporters who overrun the offices...
...sort of huge hydro-electric system to drive the wheels of the publishing business. What Henry Ford did for automobiles, Cyrus Curtis did for magazines- and they both waxed very, very rich. Today the House of Curtis towers so high above all others that there is no room for comparison...
...exact rules for registration had been issued only the day before and those who filed did so merely on the general terms of the law.* Each registration, filed in triplicate with exhibits, was a fair sized volume in itself. By comparison an income tax return was a venture in first grade arithmetic. The staff of the Trade Commission's new Bureau of Securities was faced with a mountain of work. Nonetheless they set to, eagerly seeking errors in the applications, promptly found some unaccompanied by checks or by checks uncertified...
...Mattern should be allowed to perform a dangerous and bootless flight for Chicago's glory does not seem clear. But the enthusiast for variety should not condemn our aviators without a hearing, for in comparison with other daredevils they have displayed a real fecundity of invention. Mr. Brody jumped, and seldom featly, from all our great bridges, and there was in his contortious a lack of grace monotonous to all but the local Chambers of Commerce. Many barrels ricocheted over Niagara Falls before Buffalo was convinced that the idea had lost its original savor...
Romain Rolland wrote an epic about an individual (Jean Christophe); John Galsworthy wrote one about a family (The Forsyte Saga); but Jules Romains' magnum opus will seek comparison with an earlier, more comprehensive epic: La Comedie Humaine of Honoré de Balzac. No mere tetralogy, its author himself does not say how many volumes will go to make up the whole. Its purpose: to give a true picture of Paris in the 20th Century. No individual, no family history could adequately cover so broad a scene. Says Author Romains: "What I see before my eyes is life...