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...Paris, will give the 26th of his series of lectures in French on "L'evolution du capitalisms on Europe du Xvle Siecle juequ's non jours" at 4.30 o'clock this afternoon in Emerson J. The particular phase of this subject for today's lecture will be "Le role et Poeuvre de Turgot...
...experience of Yale, if no more than a fiction, is a lesson for all time. With the pride of erudition, it sponsors chose for its motto a high-sounding Hebrew phrase; but instead of some such noble sentiment as "Lux et Veritas", malicious scholars are rumored to have proved that the phrase means "Farmers and Swindlers". Namers of summer cottages, and all others who are lured by the lust for distinctive words, will do well to take warning. A spade is not always a spade...
...program will be as follows: Tchaikowsky Symphony No. 6 in B minor Adagio; Allegro non troppo Allegro con grazia Allegro molto vivace Finale; Adagio lamentoso Wagner Aria, "Gerechter Gott" from "Rienzi" Groty-Mottl Three Dance Numbers from "Cephale et Procris" I. Tambourin II. Menuet ("The Nymphs of Diana") III. Gigue. Saint-Saens Aria, "Mon Coeur s'ouvre a ta voix" from "Samson and Delilah" Weber Overture to "Oberon...
...great curse of Russia; we must fight illiteracy like the plague.' . . . Has left off composing sonnets to fight ignorance, superstition, drunkenness, prejudice, disease, dirt." Bitterly attacked. Saved Tsarist statues from the mob. Heated art galleries during fuel famines. Assisted by wives of Soviet leaders. Sans peur et sans reproche, the "gentleman" of the Revolution. Of Gregory Vassilievitch Tchitcherin, Foreign Minister, aristocrat: "Living alone in a barren room on the top floor of the Foreign Office, he is as far removed socially and physically from the lower as from the upper crust. . . . Outside of politics, the telephone and the cable...
...Harvard, there is no quenelle ancients et des modernes. The purpose of the recently established examinations in the Bible, Shakespeare and a selected list of ancient and modern authors is to emphasize the continuity of all literature and to encourage students to cultivate the habit of reading, for pleasure's sake, in the best that men have written. A student of any literature will find it impossible to look at his subject narrowly; he will find that it concerns the history of man's best achievements in any age. He cannot hope to traverse all this vast domain...