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...limiting of membership in the Department of History and Literature will make it possible for the field to maintain the peculiar advantages which it has long had. The personal relationship between faculty and students, and the close acquaintance among concentrators themselves, which have become a tradition in the department, have been possible only because the field has not grown large and unwieldy...
...generally considered that architecture is at the present time in a "period of gestation", and that to date there has not been developed a satisfactory or consistent style springing from the various experiments since 1900 or so. The authors of this book, however, maintain that a new style has been born, and they dub it "The International Style...
...declined and retired from the diplomatic service because of ill health. His achievements while in Argentina included helping double the volume of U. S. trade with that country and the sale of two U. S.-built battleships to the Argentine Navy. In Paris Mr. & Mrs. Sherrill, who are childless, maintain a home. Both speak French fluently, the language of diplomacy at Angora.* He is a member of the Olympic Games committee, once (1887) was U. S. 100-yd. dash champion, originated the series of international interuniversity track meets in 1894, five years after he left New Haven. Mr. Sherrill...
With the world skating on the thin ice of international finance as it has recently, however, everything threatens to be possible. Should Germany and Central Europe fail to maintain their credit and admit collapse, Hitler might well ride the wave to victory. For that which destroyed the old order would set him in its place...
...part time assistant; second and third crews have received little attention; due to indifference and lack of organization seatings have seldom remained intact more than a week. The Eliot House plan will help to remove these discouraging handicaps. If crews are coached by one man and able to maintain a reasonable permanence in their personnel, a valuable esprit de corps will appear. The new plan will not only be conducive to better rowing but will also be an essential factor in the House Plan's task of making athletics more agreeable and more easily accessible for all undergraduates...