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...diversity of Adams House architecture provides a new scene for the inmates every time they turn a corner but we haven't heard of anyone in as awkward a position as the residents of Davenport College at Yale. Davenport is Gothic on the outside and has a charming interior of Georgian finish. The story has it that one of the professors in the College took the matter so to heart that he had a dressing gown made with one that harmonized with the Gothic and the other with the Georgian motif. His only problem now is to sit with...
...home. France has given him the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor and honorary citizenship in Paris. His benefactions have made him Dartmouth College's Grand Old Man. Since 1927 his masons have been rebuilding the western face of the Trophy of the Alps, with an interior stone stairway ending in a great stone block which pivots open to a fine view of the Mediterranean and the road to Monte Carlo. Such relics as his men dug up he installed in a museum on the spot. Last week he stood before Augustus' renovated Trophy and gave...
...line with Mayor Russell's economy program, all Cambridge's forces of law and order are being centralized in Central Square. At present all records have been cleared out of the aged and decrepit cop-cage and no more men report there; one man only works in the musty interior taking care of the call-box reports, and as soon as wiring to Central Square is installed he too will be withdrawn, and the edifice left for a pussy-cat's hunting ground...
Last week Secretary of the Interior Ickes reported to the Senate on his stewardship of $3,300,000,000 which had been given him last July to help put the country back to work. The last of PWA's vast bankroll, said Administrator Ickes, had been allotted in February. Without soliciting another application for loans or gifts Administrator Ickes declared he could distribute a second three billion from the surplus supply of pleas already in his office. Observing the number of jobs made by public works, the Senate was not at all sure that this was the most practical...
...Trotsky shrugged, produced papers from the French Ministry of the Interior granting him permission to live in the Department of Seine-et-Marne...