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Rhodes's Results. Some Oxford men have long regarded Rhodesmen as disagreeable blighters, scarcely fit even for one another's depressing company. Gentler observers reflect that Oxford does not represent all of England. Its young men are mostly of the gentry. And British gentry are alien to youths from big U. S. cities, not to mention those of the U. S. hinterland whence most Rhodes Scholars come. Cecil Rhodes's will provided that Scholars be chosen two from a State, which has sometimes resulted in thinly populated States sending up indifferent candidates. In 1929 Parliament was persuaded...
...list of balloters will be sent to the Intercollegiate Disarmament Council where they will be combined with similar lists from many colleges throughout the country. The whole will be presented to President Roosevelt in the form of a huge petition which will reflect the concensus of opinion of college men and women...
Sharing long, long thoughts with Boston in her bereavement, Harvard cannot but reflect on how the love of symbols makes the whole world kin. From nursery days, every man garners to himself all manner of sticks and stones to remind him of great days passed and glories hoped for. There are totems for Indians, Ikons for Russians, aviators for Prussians, and St. George for England. And for Boston, a whittled pieces of pine--the sacred...
...generation of English writers of pre-war vintage is dying out rapidly. Today, many older writers have obviously become part of their own period as they do not reflect the extraordinarily changed conditions in modern life. It is difficult to find in the younger English writers the sort of intense seriousness and vitality that is in the younger American authors. Writers like Dos Passes, Hemingway, Faulkner, are for the first time being accepted seriously in Europe as well as in America. It was Sinclair Lewis," winning the Nobel prize that gave Europe its first appreciation of the fact that Americans...
...chairman of Standard Fruit & Steamship Co. Succeeded by his old associate, Felix P. Vaccaro, he will continue as a vice president "to devote myself whole heartedly to the ... company." Reason: "As president of Union Indemnity ... I have been subjected to some unfriendly criticism, which, no matter how unjustified, might reflect itself disadvantageously upon Standard Fruit...