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...Hill" ivy plant, grown from a slip of the original vine which grew at Charles Dickens' home at Gad's Hill Place, Rochester, England, has been added to the Dickens exhibition in the Treasure Room of Widener Library. This plant was loaned by Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Ridgeway of the Dickens Fellowship of Boston in commemoration of Dickens birthday which is today...
Just as the skyscraper has grown out of America's industrial and commercial greatness, so, in time, will there develope a style in college architecture to represent America's cultural ideal. What this style will be, time will determine. If it is to be truly representative of America, it must be a pure American expression, without suggestion of European models...
...Lampoon, ever since the war, has been flirting with the idea that it ought to be a grown-up humorous publication, rather than the Harvard Lampoon. The temptation is constant, with all college journalists, to ape the fashions of their seniors, oblivious of the fact that those same seniors would be the first to change their own ways to meet the wishes of a different clientele. This year's Lampoon board, by good luck or greater intelligence, has demonstrated that the Lampoon can do the thing which its editors want to accomplish, best, when they turn its attention to what...
...working toward complete freedom of election in our high schools," she said, "and I believe that will be the natural development in both high school and college education. I am sorry that Harvard has apparently grown away from this system since the departure of President Eliot...
America is probably the best country in which to study the characteristics of the "Leisure Class." For in Europe we have grown used to the correlation of honor with disutility, and time has somewhat confused and mellowed our social relationships. In America the institution is of recent growth, and among the majority of people the idea that a gentleman is one who can afford to live in other people's labour is not yet generally accepted. But in recent years a "leisure class" has begun to emerge, and it exhibits all the usual characteristics. Especially on the Atlantic seaboard, where...