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...standard of excellence in the arts?" is the paraphrased title of tonight's talk. Mr. Frost believes that there are four fundamental classes of poets, those who value poetry for its linguistic or purely technical content, those who find its worth chiefly in its character as a historical document, those who use the manifestation of wisdom as a poetic criterion, and lastly, those who find the philosophy in poetry its most valuable element...
...custom until 1813, this diploma was engrossed rather than engraved as later became the case. The size of the document in those days depended upon how much the individual recipient wanted to pay. The president merely granted the degree, and the student had to seek his own engrosser and arrange his own price...
...several generations behind, but to me this is about as impressive as if it read: "Yours, Jim", or something o the sort. The signatures, cursory and business-like as they are, suddenly give the whole document a startling and incongruous informality, almost a flippancy, not at all compatible with the dignified Latin preceding them, or with the dignity of the occasion they seek to record...
...have thereupon accused the British Foreign Office's civil servants of an "indiscretion" would have been contrary to the principles of British parliamentarianism and of British journalism. Instead last week, the London Daily Telegraph spoke of Italian secret operatives having filched the document out of British hands "by a clever piece of indiscretion"-neatest trick of the week...
...report to the British Government on the Ethiopian situation made last June by six expert British civil servants: two from the Foreign Office and one each from the Admiralty, Air Ministry, War and Dominions Offices. These experts were chairmanned by Sir John Maffey and the official character of the document was so self-evident that the British Foreign Office was constrained to admit its genuineness, although deprecating...