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...Harvard Law Library has no equal in breadth of scope in the world, its only possible rival, the Congressional Library, having a less complete collection of books of Anglo-American, French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Scandinavian, German and South American law. It is expected that the Endowment Fund Drive recently launched by Dean Roscoe Pound will permit yet more expansion and specialization within the Library...
...development of the student in whatever way means most to the student himself and to society. As counsellor of other institutions and as President of Harvard, he contributed greatly to the evolution of the American college into the American university; he first among American educators rightly understood the character, scope, and function of university training in such professions as law and medicine, and to his forceful initiative and convincing advocacy the improvement of medical and legal education in the United States is largely due. These notable contribution to education by no means exhaust the list of his services; indeed...
...have so well deserved the honors that they have received. As a university president, he probably achieved more substantial results for the institution he served than any man in a similar position in the history of this country; but his influence has been far wider in its scope than the university, even when the influence of Harvard graduates and Harvard teachers is taken into account. President Eliot has been in a true sense an educational leader for the nation. The educational policies he introduced into Harvard College have been taken up not only by other collegiate institutions, but also...
...wife (Francine Larrimore) is given ample scope for gliding sinuously from chair to chair and finally into the bed of her husband's friend, Major Bathurst (Nigel Bruce), just prior to the second act curtain. When the Major, personifying the stalwart virtues of the British Army, turns upon Miss Larrimore with a tongue-lashing for her immorality, the audience can almost imagine itself listening to the scene in Playwright Coward's Vortex wherein the son flayed his mother for her debauchery. Next year young Mr. Coward...
...more universal than the rest--and Milt Gross. The fact that there are at least five magazines who make a business of culling their material from the files of university and college publications all over the nation would appear to prove that college with is also American win. The scope of Humor is sufficiently broad to include more than one type. If the younger generation is guiding the older through the maze of comedy it is doing it in a finished if unconventional manner...