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...future sours up. Nobody knows what part of the cud is Cream. But an official taster, specifically selected for a sensitive palate and delicate taste, would not only provide an important mechanical function, that of keeping bad milk off the tables, but would add to the kitchen that human element which is so essential a part of any large food purveying establishment. It is just this touch of individuality that gives world famous restaurants their reputations. Oscar of the Waldorf is no mere automaton, but an artist who knows the difference between curds and whey...
...mats, cat rice, and absorb a blended education drawn from both Oriental and Occidental sources. The picture is a pleasing one--a Westernized institution of high standing set in the heart of ancient Cantonese culture, where the exchange of knowledge is fostered and developed. The picture lacks only one element, which may easily be supplied by the University authorities. Harvard should grant full credit and recognition to the work done by students in Canton...
...English found oppressive. "Altogether, the American Rhodes Scholars, with their splendid gift of oratory, and their modest desire to please, and their not less evident feeling that they ought merely to edify . . . and their constant fear that they are being corrupted, are a noble, rather than a comfortable, element in the social life of the University." Rhodes Scholar Abimelech V. Oover has many points of difference with Rhodes Scholar Paul Engle, but readers who have met them both in print will see Max Beerbohm's point...
Once again the conservative element in Harvard rose to the surface in an overwhelming majority to vote in the CRIMSON-Herald Tribune poll against the bogey of currency inflation $47-68 with 15 others feeling the issue was too obvious to vote...
...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who value poetry for its linguistic or purely technical content, those who find its worth chiefly in its character as a historical document, those who use the manifestation of wisdom as a poetic criterion, and lastly, those who find the philosophy in poetry its most valuable element...