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Another suggestion was the creation of five impartial associate governors, of which four would get $75,000 a year, the chairman $100,000. These associate governors would devote themselves to the public good, investigate all rumors...
...glow of satisfaction because the heroine finally got the heir. This is rather the sort of comedy that is associated with the unfortunate Malvolio, a play of incongruities. Practically every character is caught in a problem that is impossible for him to solve, and it is in the living creation of these distinct and different beings that the present cast carries out so effectively and exquisitely...
Announcement of the creation by Edward S. Harkness of a trust of $10,000,000 to be used "for charitable work in Great Britain" was made yesterday in London. The board of trustees, including Stanley Baldwin, former premier; John Buchan, novelist; and Sir Josiah Stamp, economist, will meet soon to determine the disposition of the money...
Everyone who frequents college towns must have been amused at the struggles of professors to turn a "realtor's" creation, into a scholar's dwelling. There will be no such trouble in the House Master's residences. Their exteriors are those of a brick colonial mansion, their interiors are academic professorial. Built into the body of the House and connected with it, each is nevertheless easily distinguishable from the mass of the building by its residential aspect and can be lived in without going into the students' or tutors' quarters. For the privilege of living in either of the House...
...generation is so proud, only repeats in parrot fashion the knowledge inherited from the past, is lacking in the intellectual audacity necessary for true progress. The big-brained animal has created an artificial material environment and moral code for himself, has not developed sufficient brainpower to use his creation wisely...