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...American branch of the League Maritime et Coloniale Francaise, created a fund several years ago to defray expenses connected with the inviting of a group of French University students to America for a few weeks. They were given such a cordial reception here and established so many firm friendships that it seemed proper and fitting that a group of American students should be invited to visit France under similar circumstances...
...Lane Bryant, dressmaker, had a shrewd idea that appealed from its start to all women of ample figure. Says she: "It was my firm belief that fashion was slighting such women, was making smart dressing difficult for them. Merely supplying 'large sizes' of current styles was entirely wrong. What the woman of ample figure wanted, what I feel she must have, was a redesigning, a restyling of current fashions along slenderizing, beautifying lines. That was the simple idea that prompted me. . . . That is the idea which is today carried out in every garment we make...
...criticism of the work of Mr. Coolidge or of his firm is embodied in the question which naturally arises: is it best for Harvard to be planned by one architect in these years of material development? Harvard is so architecturally heterogeneous that any attempt to make it all Georgian in style is unnecessary and sometimes unfortunate. The architectural style of Massachusetts Hall is not naturally adapted to such large blocks of brick and mortar as Widener Library, designed by Trumbauer fifteen years ago, or the new chemical laboratory...
...bigger and better stadia. In assuming the position she has done more than this; she has set a definite limit to the advance of one of two forces. This step may or may not have far-reaching results, but at least it has put the University in a firm and individual position in the line of march...
...They dropped without warning 5 to 40 points. American Telephone & Telegraph stock, one of the few important ones listed, not only did not wobble, but even rose during the week. But then directors had decreed $185,000,000 of new stock at par to shareholders. General Motors held unusually firm, considering that it has been a "favorite." Chrysler and Studebaker stocks tended to rise. Hudson Motors also made a good record, and Mack Trucks, Hupmobile, Nash, Packard...