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Therefore the appointment of Mr. James M. Landis, at the age of thirty-seven, as dean is of the widest interest. There will be general agreement, we are confident, that President Conant and the Board of Overseers could not have made a happier choice. There were many worried faces in Wall Street when to this earnest young professor was assigned the task of helping to tame the Stock Exchange. There could be no question of the adequacy of his background of learning or of the keen edge of his mind. He had been called the most brilliant student at Harvard...
...Year we turn away from a sad, humiliating story to what we are confident will be a happier future...
...Never happier than when he is displaying the flowery diction expected of an honorary degree-holder from Boston's Staley College of the Spoken Word, rich-voiced Governor Curley then arose and intoned: "I bring the greetings of the State of Massachusetts. . . . That master of prose and poetry who has sounded every depth and shoal of human feeling, William Shakespeare, unquestionably anticipated this institution when he penned the line which reads 'How far that little candle throws its beams, so shines a good deed in a naughty world.' " After reviewing the history of Harvard, Democrat Curley...
...passenger. By the time the airliner had left Memphis, droned on toward its second stop at Dallas, its third at Tucson, all 14 passengers were stowed away for the night. Next morning, at Los -Angeles, the fourth stop, they rose for breakfast on the ground after a trip far happier than any, U. S. night plane traveler had ever experienced on the coast-to-coast run. Cost...
...that Boulder Dam, by preventing a flood in 1935. saved the Imperial Valley at least $10,000,000. Holding that confidence is the basic need, he gives brief, effective accounts of projects in Sweden, Russia, England. Readers may be dazzled by Stuart Chase's bold vision of a happier future for their country but they are more likely to close Rich Land, Poor Land, with an uneasy feeling that Author Chase has pulled some white rabbits out of his statistics, that there must be greater obstacles to his program than he admits...