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...Renaissance castle on noisy Washington Street in Brooklyn's "downtown" section, a half mile from Henry Ward Beecher's old Plymouth Church on Orange Street and the "Heights," where some of the borough's first families still reside. Conservative organ of the top-drawer element in a conservative city not unlike Boston or Baltimore, the Eagle rightly regarded itself as one of the country's most influential papers...
...present ruling a House Master is allowed to fill 5 per cent of his annual quota with graduate students. Small as this percentage may seem, it equals one third of the men who are refused admission to the Houses each year. Although most of the graduates form a desirable element, and contribute a great deal to House activities, the fact remains that the Houses were built for the undergraduates, and they should be considered first...
Gladstone was Chancellor of the Excequer. As Henry Adams, the precocious young son of the American Minister to London, put it, "If in the domain of the world's politics, one point was fixed, one value ascertained, one element serious, it was the British Exchequer, and if one man lived who could be certainly counted as sane . . . it was the man who had in charge the finances of England . . ." Yet in the frenzied undercover drama that took place in the British capital during the years of the American Civil War, no character was made more of a monkey than...
Wallace Stevens, American poet, will give a free public lecture on "The Irrational Element in Poetry" at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon, in Sever Hall. The lecture is under the auspices of the Morris Gray Poetry Fund...
Speaking on the subject "The Irrational Element in Poetry", the American poet Wallace Stevens will give a free public lecture tomorrow afternoon in Sever Hall at 4:30 o'clock. The lecture is under the auspices of the Morris Gray Poetry Fund...