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Andre de Laboulaye: Eminent as diplomat, whose nation and ours have in critical times helped each other, and must ever retain that precious memory...
...into the sea. He lost his course, missed England & Scotland completely, discovered himself over the coast of Norway which he was not prepared to navigate. With fuel running low, he picked out a landing spot in an island -Jomfruland-70 mi. southwest of Oslo. There he lost 18 precious hours before getting gasoline from the mainland. Off again, he paused for a brief moment at Oslo, then tore across the Baltic 1,100 mi. to Moscow where he landed three hours ahead of Post & Gatty's time...
...looks back fifty years to his won college career, and then deplores the passing of the good old days. Though ready enough to admit the great advances in education since then, and even the superiority in most respects of the modern college, he chooses to direct attention to the precious something which has dropped out of college life in the transition from '83 to '33. He would like to recapture "something of the old monastic spirit of college life, something of its isolation, something of its intimacy...
...much of a tendency to regard these as lost merely because a college has grown larger. And there is the corresponding attempt to redeem the loss by reducing the College to small units where greater intimacy may effect closer friendships. While House Plans do help to restore "these infinitely precious things," still it must not be overlooked that the basis of close friendships consists not in people occupying the same hotel, but in their doing things together. The classroom and the athletic field will always to be the great basis of friendships, regardless of whether it is the Yale...
...This precious stone, set in the silver...