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...clock tomorrow morning the Board will again meet in University Hall. At the close of this meeting, the operation of the University Press will be explained. A dinner to be given for the members of the Board of Overseers by the Board of Governors of the Harvard Club of Boston will close the session...
...these days of the printing press, electrical appliances, and the automobile, it is difficult to realize that not very long ago the general culture of our own Anglo-Saxon ancestors had not reached a much higher level than that of some of the more cultured tribes of America...
...Tuesday morning the Overseers will visit the headquarters of the University Press at Randall Hall in order to learn about its operation. A luncheon at the Harvard Club of Boston, at the invitation of the Board of Governors of the club, will bring the meeting...
With Governor Miller proclaiming that New York City must be made a "safe place to live in" and the daily press echoing with the announcement that in the last 98 days there have been 91 murders in the Metropolitan district, the so-called "Crime Wave" is with us again. Is it the effect of the post-war reaction, reflecting general world wide lawlessness as a result of renewed acquaintance with the automatic? Are there laws enough at present against crime, or is the present machinery adequate to enforce them? Does the flaring publicity attendant on each daring hold-up serve...
Worthy citizens who have always proclaimed the superiority of America in all things, and as an example pointed with pride to the infinitely more wide-awake progressiveness of "our press", will step back aghast at reports from the battle of the papers now raging in London. To the vulgar eye, that threadhare old scarcecrow, "British Conservatism," has pulled himself together and is working off the effects of a violent "jag." The shades of Addison and Steele, returned to earth, if they survived half a day in London traffic, would shrink away in horror at the prospect of the press...