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...whole of greater Boston. Its avowed purpose is to show examples of modern art whose merits are still frankly debateable, objects which could not otherwise be seen nearer than New York. In several of its exhibitions, notably the present one, it has offered students a chance for comparison between contemporary works and recognized masterpieces which have characteristics in common. In another exhibition, the development of modern trends of artistic endeavor was shown. These instances show the organization's attempt at education as well as appreciation...
...deserves an answer. The report, for instance, mentions nothing of the cost of all the building which was completed last year; it does not distinguish between administration expenses and the money spent for research, two widely different items. Moreover, a different set of figures was given last year, making comparison impossible...
Yale is news-worthy. It is a good yardstick against which to measure Dartmouth. Many of our sins fade by comparison. There is a desperate uniformity about Yale men, a class-consciousness that manacles them to the dubious destiny of middle class fortunes rather well. And of all American colleges Yale is easily the most sentimentalized of the nation, the essence of collegiatism poised against the erudition of Harvard and Chicago. Tradition has a special holiness at Yale which renders it immune from criticism. It is a good thing? Ah, well...
...handles these excellently. Loretta Young is capable as the girl pal sob sister, but the producers were rather unfortunate to cast her with Jean Harlow, for the contrast between the two shows all too clearly that Miss Harlow is a very poor actress and rather plain in comparison with Miss Young's almost classic beauty...
...might be noted, however, that with all its corruption and fraud, Tammany has given New York a very efficient government. The complete failure of the "reform" administration not many years ago, or a comparison with the civil organization of Chicago would prove this fact. But at any rate New York can no longer point to Chicago's corrupt government with an air of superiorty...