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...steep for most foreign scholars, is dirt cheap: the equivalent of 27 U. S. dollars. Other universities are more expensive. What the Institute neglected to mention is that living by U. S. standards costs approximately $1,800 a year, half that amount if the student forsakes his Occidental mode of life for native...
...make it quite clear that I share much of the scepticism of the Harvard undergraduate body when it is implied (as it is so often in public statements these days) that our choice is a clear-cut one between democracy a la mode 1925 and a Nazified world. For what it is worth, my own predictions is that the western world stands on the brink of revolutionary developments which would, even with Allied victory, leave little in Europe recalling the democratic institutions we have known. And in such a world America would perforce be carried long way on the road...
...tirade it produced against Harvard's subversive influence and against "German refugees giving military orders in a hospital." It was chivalrous of Mickey to try to protect Cambridge Hospital from Fifth-column assault. Nevertheless, one might perhaps warn him that his grounds are nil, his arguments flabby, and his mode of expression calculated to draw nothing but the horse-laugh...
...treatment of line and the philosophic calm an unmistakable declaration of indebtedness to some of the Chinese artists whose works are exhibited on the floor below. Subtle variations in the width and shape of lines, together with the apparently effortless rendition of form by means of this mode, serve to bring out clearly one phase of Picasso's electicism. Despite the fact that no single part of Picasso's career can be strictly called an "Oriental Period," most of his paintings and drawings embody the abstract delicacy of the East...
...place of the usual, objectionable mode of dancing, they urge back-to-back waltzing, with gospel hymns in place of the modern, "voluptuous" music. The hymns, they conceded, 'might be played with such rhythms as to be appropriate for the purpose...