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...Harvard there is a student loan fund of a sort, though obsecure and difficult of access to the uninitiated. The tuition at Harvard is already high enough in comparison with state financed universities and many smaller privately endowed colleges, to make such a fund indispensable to the man characterized by Dean Jervey of Columbia as "the man with brains and character but without means". The tremendous increase in the number of young people desirous of a university education makes admission requirements a necessity, but a high tuition covering expenses should not be included among such restrictions. Tuition fees should gradually...
...twentieth century literary cocktail in the very center of the storm of applause still acclaiming the Erskine novels, he has committed nothing than une gaucherie. Before the reader has sipped at "Cleopatra's Diary" he has recalled the merits and defects of "Galahad" and adopted a standard of critical comparison which the latest exploit of ancient and medieval virtues and vices cannot begin to approach. For Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, sorceress of the Nile, is as distinctive because of her wickedness as Galahad is because of his virture. Erskine shoved Galahad from his pedestral and shook the temple...
...Governor's friends introduced a bill giving the Governor as well as other state officials immunity from quo warranto proceedings. Critics questioned the constitutionality of the measure, but the Illinois Senate speedily passed it. Last week it came up in the House, on which occasion Representative Miller made his comparison between the Governor and Judas and his remark about hands reaching up to the shoulders. Despite these criticisms, the House passed the bill, 108 to 29, and Governor Small speedily signed...
...sanatorium, a high and chilly retreat, the perspective of life changes. With death for a background, massive and eccentric as the high Alps, the caperings of man seem puny by comparison. The idiotic decadence, the absurdly microscopic preoccupations of humanity are emphasized by their isolation...
...invaders from Tennessee are generally-represented by strong aggregaionst and this spring's group should prove no exception. Their schedule has been limited chiefly to southern teams, making a comparison between the Crimson nine and the visiting team on the basis of showings against other diamond forces an even more hazardous and more futile process than usual...