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...drizzling rain made no difference. The great night had come. In the Chamber there would be delirious hours of such oratory as Frenchmen love to wallow in. Sonorous snatches and smart mots would drift out to the magpie crowd. They parbleu, would not wait to read in the papers that at the climax of this Parliamentary orgy the Chamber had sustained or overthrown the Cabinet boldly formed last fortnight in defiance of party leaders by "The Most American of Frenchmen," driving, militant, iconoclastic Andre Tardieu (TIME...
...This drift may well cause anxiety to the lover of Harvard College. To the Graduate Schools it forbodes no ill. A great city is a congenial and indeed a stimulating site for professional teaching and scientific research. But a metropolis does not readily foster a college. Is the old Harvard to stay? Is Harvard to remain a place where boys will grow into youths and men under the influences and in the surroundings which mean so much--almost everything--to us? Or will the College decay as the professional departments grow? Will the only colleges of the old type that...
...drift here adverted to will continue. Newer, more comprehensive and convenient texts will appear from the pens of professors of other law schools and will be worked in within the limits of the abuse of the existing method. It is inconceivable that present conditions will continue to be accepted as ultimate in the perfectibility of legal education...
With a submarine Sir Hubert* could collect data on North Polar temperature, force and direction of ocean currents, condition and drift of ice-factors important to knowledge of Earth's weather...
Geraldine (Pathe). Booth Tarkington, amiable observer of smalltown surfaces, thought and wrote about a homely girl whose father brought home a bright young man to make her happy. The producers and players (Albert Gran, Marion Nixon, Eddie Quillan) got the drift of the thing, but not the kindly, Tarkingtonian sparkle. The result is only fairish...