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...taken from her and placed on the breast of his mistress. He tells her sadly of his plan to put her in a convent. Then Catherine realizes she must give in to the officers who want to make her Empress by a coup d'état. Her principal concern is that Peter will not be harmed-a matter which historically bothered Catherine II not at all. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. puts cruelty and craft in his performance of Peter III but lets his relish in clothes-swishing robes, shiny boots & swords-suggest a highschool senior in a commencement play. England...
Your editorial on English 1 interested me a good deal. I have taken the course, and in general I heartily agree with your estimate. But it seems to me that the question is incorrectly put. You take the point of view that the undergraduates should concern themselves with Chaucer the poet (I agree!), while graduates should be principally occupied with historical and linguistic matters (here I object!). Let me assure you that for a graduate Chaucer is, or should be, also primarily a poet, as he is, or should be, for the professors, congressmen, the janitor of the building...
...basis on which the scholarships will be awarded, however, gives rise to some concern. While the regulations adopted by the Council are framed with masterful ambiguity, it is apparently planned to give primary consideration to participation in extra-curricular activities. Such a plan cannot e deemed to be in the best interests of the students. The extra-curricular activities deserve the encouragement of the College, but they should never be recognized as a primary aim for any student. The award of scholarships in the manner intimated by the Council would have the same effect as athletic scholarships in diverting attention...
...College--which should not be distinguished from the University, inasmuch as it should be the preparatory and proving grounds for the Graduate Schools--he will concern himself only with the encouragement of creative thought, and it is perhaps almost too obvious to call attention to the change that this will bring about in the face of the University as a whole. There will no longer be those who enjoy a scholarship at Harvard on the strength of ability to get A's: the upper seventh of the student-body will consist--as will the faculty to an even larger degree...
...Dallas, Tex. He had no money but he did have a well-connected uncle. The uncle ran the M. T. Jones Lumber Co., gave Jesse a job in one of its yards. In a year Jesse was yard manager. In three years he was general manager of the whole concern, planning to extend the company further through Texas and Okla homa. It was then that he moved the scene of his operations south to Houston, a growing railway and shipping town connected with the Gulf by shallow Buffalo Bayou...