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...that time the total number was 15712 in comparison with the 1930 figure of 65584. An interesting landmark for comparison is the year 1910, the year in which President Lowell first took office. In that year the total number of degree holders was 37079, proving that in the 20 years since 1910 the number has grown more than in the 35 years previous to that date...
...minor detail that the persons unknown who perpetrated the Supreme Sacrilege were also thieves and stole from the Church of S. Marco Maggiore religious vessels, consisting of a jewel-studded chalice, monstrances and Pyxes valued at thousands of dollars, but all essentially things of little worth in spiritual comparison with the Host...
Yale will enter the game a favorite, largely on its showing in the Eastern Interscholastic League this winter. The only late-season comparison of the relative strength of the Crimson and Blue quintets is found in their showings against the Red and Blue. The Penn Palestra was the scene of a 35 to 19 defeat for the Crimson, while Yale lost its game to Pennsylvania in the last half by the narrower count...
...development of the movies and their position as the greatest form of popular amusement that the world has ever had. He presents a great deal of excellent material on the movies as an illusion. Which cannot fail to be of great interest to the casual though critical observer. His comparison of the moving picture and music as analogous arts is probably the most original part of the volume, while his critical discussion of the history of cinema since the days when it was used for peep-shows leads up to a final comparison of the Russian productions of Eisenstein...
...Henry Ford should actually devote the rest of his life to a $100,000,000 chain of technical schools, he would discover that the apparently crowded field of motor manufacturing is sparsely occupied in comparison with the academic grove. The rivalry among educators was never so keen as it is today. In no other country do so many institutions try to attract students--the sad experience of "Jude the Obscure" in Thomas Hardy's overpowering novel seems hardly possible in the United States. From the time when a child is ready for kindergarten until and A.B., he enters a graduate...