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ANYONE who has taken Fine Arts 1d at Harvard, or has sat in on the lectures dealing with present-day American architecture, will rejoice that Professor Edgell has found time to set forth, more fully and in permanent form, his knowledge and opinions on this subject. With America at present going through an era of extreme self-consciousness, with the country never before so financially able to enter the field of art, and with a problem almost unique to be solved in its building, no book could be of more timely interest...
When John William Davis, technical present-day head of the Democratic Party by virtue of his 1924 nomination, was a smiling cherub in a baby-basket at Clarksburg, West Va., another young male of that village was already romping lustily in the pantalettes of the period and beginning to play "soldiers." It was just after the Civil War, a martial moment. Young Guy Despard Goff, six years John Davis's senior, was sent to Kenyon Military Academy, up at Gambier, Ohio. Later he went to Harvard and became a lawyer, practicing in Boston first, then Milwaukee. Perhaps he wished...
...PRESENT-DAY RUSSIA-Macmillan...
...Harvard men throughout the West are keenly interested in the present activities of the University," was his statement when questioned about the enthusiasm among distant alumni. "Their questions dealt chiefly with the tutorial system, the recently inaugurated Reading Period, the enlargement of the Stadium, and the expansion of athletic facilities as exemplified by the proposed swimming pool and indoor athletic plant. They were especially interested in the present-day requirements for admission, with particular reference to what actual need exists for boys in distant communities to resort to Eastern preparatory schools in order to meet entrance requirements...
...addition to the renunciation of aggression between Germany and France, there is the English guarantee. Are the pledged word and power of England nothing to those who in France demand stronger security? Do they doubt the ability of England together with France, to fight Germany's present-day army? "It is illogical to have a Locarno treaty and at the same time see the Rhineland occupied. The Locarno agreement was meant to be the beginning, not the end, of the new era of conciliation." Briand (apostrophizing Stresemann with blazing frankness): "Locarno gives us all the security on the Rhine...