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...most fitting monument to the late writer the Institute has exercised good judgment, for thus will be united the two strongest influences in Conrad's life literature and the sea. The announcement of the members of the honorary committee elected to act with the Board of Managers is sufficient proof that the library will be proportionate to the genius of the man whose name it bears; one finds such notables and associates of Conrad as Frank N. Doubleday, Ford Maddox Ford, and Sir Esme Howard on the list...
...ployment of organized armed guards to protect the mails. Such guards would take the place of the marines now on duty. An appropriation of $1,000,000 will also be required to purchase armored mail trucks. President Coolidge has already called for bids on 250 trucks with bullet-proof drivers' cabs...
...thought nor one the cogency of which we feel to be overwhelming. Granting the dramatist's premises--a concession we are absolutely unwilling to make--the proof of his thesis is not completely convincing. And the treatment of his theme is not startlingly revolutionary. Aside from the obvious shadow of the "Beggar on Horseback", here is more than a suggestion of Barrie, and even a hint--God save the mark--of Maeterlinck. It is probably in the manner of its telling that the reason can be found for the strangely unsatisfying quality of the play. Undeniably it is written badly...
...Proof that Harvard is not the only college in the country to encounter difficulty in providing its students with proper comestibles was afforded yesterday by F. H. Roth Division Manager of the Waldorf System, Mr. Roth affirmed that Cornell, similarly confronted by the eating situation six years ago, solved the problem nicely by constructing a huge common dining-hall that accommodates 1200 men at each meal...
...fourth chapter is on "Homosexuality." There is even the statement: "If man is polygamous, woman is polyandrous," with the usual demonstration that each is nothing of the kind. If that fails to reassure the timid, let them turn to "Do Characters in Fiction Behave Like Human Beings" for fresh proof that this doctor's interests and understanding can reach from Harold Bell Wright to Anatole France without losing sight of actual human conduct. Let them examine "The Fundamentalists and Modernists of Psychology" and be assured that Dr. Collins takes his Freud with a prodigious grain of salt, practical...