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...time is particularly ripe for making summer students pay a larger share of University costs, because the director of the Summer School has just announced the school is so crowded that admission will be limited this year. There is nothing inequitable about raising summer school rates--on the contrary, it is very fair indeed--and those who defend the lower rates might recall that the regular students of Harvard are presently paying a large part of the costs of the University whose name makes the Harvard Summer School attractive...
...Ives, the novel left unfinished at his death by Robert Louis Stevenson. Author Daphne (Rebecca) du Maurier has performed a similar service for Sir Arthur, who died in 1944 at the age of 80. In her Gothic conclusion, Author du Maurier is inventive enough, but her sentences-round and ripe though they be-lack the sonorous roll of Quiller-Couch's originals. Who but an authentic Victorian master could recreate such Quiller-Couch lines as "This most ancient cirque of Castle Dor, deserted, bramble-grown, was the very nipple of a huge breast in pain, aching for discharge...
...Tenth of the Harvest. Historically the tithe meant the first tenth of the harvest that was offered up to God. In Exodus, God tells Moses: "Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits." Church councils until early modern times regarded tithing as part of divine...
Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories and Other Tales (Boris Karloff; Caedmon). Actor Karloff, in a voice as rich as a ripe persimmon, unwinds with "infinite resource and sagacity" the mad Kiplingesque logic featuring the rhinoceros with a three-button skin and the Parsee from whose hat the rays of the sun were reflected "in more than Oriental splendor...
Handling Living Artists. The big houses such as Wildenstein, Duveen, Knoedler and Rosenberg have the experience and the capital to be able to hang on to a purchase for years, if necessary, until the market is ripe for selling. Smaller dealers, who more often handle the works of living artists, either place artists on a kind of salary in return for a certain number of pictures a year-the favored method in Europe-or take work on consignment and sell it for a straight one-third commission. The percentage is not as exorbitant as it sounds, for the business entails...