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...assets too desirable to be reduced. People who leave money to Harvard usually tie it up for definite ends, such as museums and rare book libraries. These are luxuries, but the terms of the gifts preclude the use of the axe. Besides, although they are luxuries they are the element of the University which sets it apart from other institutions...
...believes, had something to do with it. "Lenin was its herald and pioneer. Hitler has made a great contribution. Mussolini and Stalin have played important roles. . . . But the revolt is not the handiwork of any single man or group of men. . . . Over this tremendous collapse . . . broods a strong element of fatalistic inevitability...
...TIME, Oct. 20, marks the first really intelligent reporting on your part on things Catholic which I have ever been privileged to read in the pages of your powerful organ. Let us hope that this marks a complete departure from your former utter lack of comprehension of the Catholic element on the American scene...
...latest fire prevention methods, is a combination of business man, doctor, psychologist, race-track driver, and engineer. Every one of his men looks forward to officers stripes some day, and knows he has to work to get them. The old time courage is still there, plus the new scientific element which makes it a hundred times more valuable. Experience is reinforced with study and advancement is strictly on a merit basis. It no longer depends on the cigar dispensing technique once used so effectively by shennanigan-minded "politicians...
...call North Americans misteres instead of gringos. President Dr. Eduardo Santos is a newspaperman; the Foreign Minister (Dr. Luis Lopez de Mesa) is a psychological novelist. The first Colombian Author Gunther met was an interviewer who asked: "Do you think that intellectual fermentations, as represented by the left-wing element of the first phase of the first New Deal, are on the whole more beneficial to democracy than otherwise?" The last Colombian he met was an interviewer who asked: "What is your opinion of Dostoevsky...