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...Department of History and Literature has a great deal of intellectual pride -- and that pride is more than half justified. First to establish the tutorial system at Harvard, the department has retained ever since 1909 a vivid sense of its educational objective and of the right function of the tutors in working toward that objective. The tutors are probably more interested in the idea of undergraduate education and more conscious of their part in it than the men of almost any other department...
...your information-a cataract is an opacity of the crystalline lens- that powerful and highly transparent little lens within the eye whose function it is to bring rays of light to a focus upon the retina. Due to injury, extreme heat, or any one of a number of causes, this lens may become translucent and eventually opaque. Since all rays of light must pass through the crystalline lens to be received upon the retina, it is easy to see how a loss of transparency results in serious impairment to the vision. Science knows of no way to remove a lenticular...
...alone were bank clearings missing from important indices by which businessmen are accustomed to gauge the state of business. All stock exchanges and most commodity exchanges (except livestock and other perishables) failed to function. Businessmen searching for straws in every wind last week found them of two contradictory kinds...
Sever all Harvard organizations have recognized the possibilities of converting the Big tree pool to some useful function, but the University has been reluctant to part with so valuable an asset as this trace of land so close to the Yard represents. Lately it has been suggested, however, that the University permit the Harvard Dramatic club the use of the property. The club has never had a theatre of its own. Relying on the good will of the Pt Eta Club and the not too low rentals of Brattle Hall, it has been moving from one stage to another. Funds...
Apparently unscathed by the vagaries of finance. The Colophon continues on its leisurely way as a publication of more than ordinary distinction. Aristocratic in tone and appearance, catering as it does to la limited number of booklovers, it fulfills its function adequately. In Part XII for the first quarter of 1933 one notes especially the high standard of craftsmanship and typographic excellence, an excellence that is already a tradition with the Colophon...