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...Children of Recovery" first appeared at the Chemical Industries Exhibit in New York City, where they so interested Arthur B. Lamb, Erving Professor of Chemistry, that he had them brought here. The present display is sponsored by the Boylston Chemical Club and the Harvard Chapter of Alpha Chi Sigma, national honorary chemical fraternity...
Something should be said in praise of the physical handsomeness of the book and the unhackneyed portraits of the authors used as illustrations. The book is almost worth owning for Henry Lamb's remarkable portrait of Strachey. On the other hand, there is much unaccountable carelessness in the text; the name of the pilgrim ship in "Lord Jim" is the "Patna," not the "Patria;" the protagonist of "Antic Hay" is Gumbril, not Gombauld; D. H. Lawrence died and was buried at Vence, in the South of France, not at Venice...
...exhibition made its debut at the Chemical Industries Exhibit held in the Grand Central Palace this fall. Arthur B. Lamb, Erving Professor of Chemistry, became interested in it at that time, and used his influence to bring the "Children" here as soon as possible after their New York appearance...
...Salamis, when a greedy Theban, digging fruitlessly for Persian treasure, was thus slyly advised by Delphi's oracle. To rob Peter to pay Paul (Wyclif, 1380). Still waters run deep (1430). A hair of the dog that bit you (1546). God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb (thought by many to be a Biblical quotation, by a more knowledgeable few the invention of Laurence Sterne, this proverb goes back to the French, 1594). Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off (1640). Better be the head of an ass than the tail of a horse (1670). Never...
...Therefore, be it resolved that this Committee, on behalf of the Freshmen who attended these reviews, does hereby thank Professors Lamb, Hocking, and Wheldon for their co-operation and Messrs. MacDougall, Kaiser, Cheedle, and Taylor, who devoted their time and energy to conduct these reviews...