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...words the outstanding results of President Lowell's years of service to Harvard, these terms might to be those of "order' and "current" Under the system of concentration and distribution the College became able to assimilate the oncoming groups of men entering the University year by year. The academic pattern thus arranged provided an ordered and balanced plan of study as important for the planless entrants as it has proved to be for those with a decided bias...
...Fall theme of classic tragedy. Hubris (???is) was the offense of the honest but haughty mortal who thumbed his nose at the gods and arrogantly defied fate. Certain as death, Nemesis followed to wreak the wrathful gods' retribution upon such a presumptuous creature. The hubris-nemesis pattern of drama unconsciously taught the Hellenic lesson of moden agan or moderation in all things. An Attic axiom: "Too much prosperity brings ruin...
...likes to be considered an authority on Spanish and Indian culture in the Southwest. Though she does not admit in so many words that her life has been happy, she does think it has been successful: "The totality of my experiences is that I have been faithful to the pattern, and it has not disappointed...
...mail. Naturally, even an honest aviation picture must contain a crash and rescue; this time they happen when Miller cracks up in a snowstorm and Talbot flies a stolen plane into the mountains to bring him back. Good shot: Desert Airport on Christmas night, with a pattern of planes rising in the lighted snowy...
...Herriot was understood to say that all volunteer armies-such as the British, U. S. and Russian-must also be remodeled on conscript pattern to satisfy France. Later, after he had won his vote of confidence, the Premier explained that the British and U. S. armies are excepted from his plan which applies to Continental Europe only...