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...there may be at Oxford. The College undergraduate does not share a community with the Law or Business School student because they are all Harvard men. What he does share with these others is the sense of a larger community wrought by no more tangible bond than the common search for knowledge. Where Oxford is a fellowship of a number of groups, each sufficient unto itself, Harvard is a fellowship of a number of individuals, each free to make...
...told by the Dowager Queen Marie-herself the mother of three Rumanian princesses, Princess Ileana, ex-Queen Elizabeth of Greece and Queen Marie of Jugoslavia. So modest is Dowager Queen Marie that she did not proclaim herself "Best Mother" as some catty enemies thought she would. Instead a painstaking search has been carried on by Her Majesty for some weeks, with a view to bestowing a large gold medal on Rumania's very best mother. Last week the 32-year-old mother of a bonny boy of seven received from Queen Marie the supreme award...
...told," cried Feng sarcastically, "that when men in Honan desire to move to the adjoining province of Shensi in search of livelihood, their wives seize their gowns and sob, 'Ai-ya, my loved one, why will you go to that far-away place...
There was some hesitation at first on the part of the ushers whether to look on the stage or in the audience, but a second alarm, obviously in the rear of the theater convinced them that the orchestra was not the guilty party. The search then started off in earnest, the duet becoming a sextet almost coincidentally. To the consternation of some and the amusement of all--excepting, of course, the management--the six alarm clocks were finally found tied to the hatracks under six seats on the main floor of the theater...
...select later in the year five more students from the Senior Class whose mathematical records would not qualify them for consideration but whose eligibility was incontestable. As years went on this number increased from five to ten and even to 15. This power granted the electing body to search beneath the College grades and to recognize less regular but definite intellectual successes succeeded as calculated in making membership in Phi Beta Kappa a still greater honor than it had been before...