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Coming through the rain at Delaware Water Gap, Pa., last week, was the hulk of Archie Compston, British golfer. He was doing well-one under par on the last nine holes. That gave him a final card of 287 and the Eastern Open championship. Said a rain-vexed U. S. golfer, "High time an Englishman won at golf...
...festivity might be said to take on a new significance. The Tree and the ivy have not escaped the immutable law, but they have handed down their heritage. In much the same manner the classes which frolicked around the tree and solemnly planted the ivy shoot will bridge the gap and be reincarnated in the Class of 1928 which like all classes which have preceded it today smiles us last smile before drinking the bitter draught of departure...
...White, one of the best known book collectors in America, has been a benefactor of Widener Library for a number of years. His collection of Shakespeariana was ranked among the world's foremost, and its acquisition by the Library, besides filling a conspicuous gap on the shelves, placed the Harvard collection in the top flight of world libraries. An exhibition of the books is planned for the Treasure Room...
...accession of these volumes and of other works of the Elizabethan Age included in the White collection fills what has been an outstanding gap on the Widener shelves of English literature. The books of this collection will be of the greatest assistance to advanced students of the English drama, and will strengthen decidedly the position of Widener Library as a leading University library of the world. The British Museum Library, and the Henry E. Huntington Library of Los Angeles house other important collections of Shakespeariana...
...awareness of the discrepancy between these well defined groups of students, separated here only by the loose candidature for distinction thus steadily grows, official recognition of the gap cannot be too distant an eventuality. The complete reservation of the Reading Period and the Tutorial System for the students who elect honors and retain their position with honor grades, may or may not be possible and desirable. But with the experiments with the Junior college, with classification of entrants, with such a pronouncement as that of the Yale council, acceptance of the obvious, in short., that freedom is stimulation and opportunity...