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...Champs Elysées, the police asked the paraders to disperse. They refused. Then one of the young Communists up front yelled the old revolutionary slogan: "Aux barricades!" Demonstrators grabbed wooden trestles placed along the sidewalks to contain the crowds and laid them across the road. Iron chairs from Fouquet's and other open-air cafes were added. Paving stones were ripped up. Soon a stout barricade was built. The police did not move...
These stones, the first phase of the University's program, will be ready for dedication some time next year. A memorial volume will also be prepared. It will contain a brief biographical sketch of each man that Yale seeks to honor...
...Yale memorial for World War I, while it did not contain a scholarship program, was in many respects like the new plans. Names of the war dead were cut in tablets in the Memorial Hall, and a memorial volume, similar to the one soon to be published, was also printed...
This new biography of Victoria, which is Bolitho's ninth about this period, has nothing of Strachey's amused, amusing manner, nothing of his skepticism and silky grace. Above all, it does not contain a single sentence that even runs a risk of being thought dangerously brilliant. All present or accounted for are the famous, fascinating figures of the great era-Baron Stockmar, Lord Melbourne, Lord Palmerston, Mr. Gladstone, Disraeli, the Duke of Wellington, et al.-and so frigidly correct that they appear to have been hewn from frozen blocks of Birds...
...coming years the Houses will have a tougher time doing their job than they have since the war. While the Administration probably will continue to keep the student body varied and representative, the College will contain fewer and fewer war veterans. Since the non-veteran has had less contact with large numbers of his countrymen, he is loss adaptable to the purposes of the House Plan than the veteran. For this reason the Houses, which have made a respectable start in their work, must now crack down on all the big and little faults which have so far slowed...