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...White House would be an ideal place to live, if it were not for the fact that attached to it on the east are the Presidential offices where an unconscionable amount of work must be done. Any President may well be tempted to escape from the White House on account of its unpleasant eastern appendage. President Harding expects to escape it on June 20, when he plans to start foi Alaska...
...favorite actors and actresses, Mary Pickford, Norma Talmadge, Constance Talmadge and Gloria Swanson gain the affections of both groups in that order. Then there is a difference of opinion. Douglas Fairbanks is, of course, the beau ideal of boyhood and Rodolph Mineralava Valentino, equally of course, the prince of girlish dreams...
...Dean Briggs was the first man who ever became a dean without losing his popularity. He carried with him into the office the sympathy and friendly understanding which have made him the best of guides; he established for the University, and as an example for all American colleges the ideal that a dean is not a mere disciplinary officer but a counsellor and friend. The personal element which he introduced has been continued by those who have succeeded him as Dean of Harvard College, and the creation of assistant deans for each class extended it even farther...
...delicate task of supplementing college training, not undermining it. Whatever we may think of the system that he developed, it was always clear to those who knew him best that he worked from the highest motives and sought to give help of a kind that reflected an unusual ideal in teaching. Friendly and generous in all his relations his passing will mark a real loss in college life." GEORGE HOWARD PARKER '87. Professor of Zoology...
...orchestra as are the final rows in a concert hall, much of the nuance of the orchestra is lost. The pianissimi are apt to be inaudible. For this reason the best programs for outdoor performance are vigorous ones, with heavy masses of tone and brazen climaxes. Tschaikowsky is ideal...