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...Boston is a moral city. And art and morality seldom go hand in hand. At least one has to forget the one to effect the other. Of course one must define this morality as a compound of decadent Puritanism, conventional Catholicism, and that esprit de corps which sends so many faithful followers herding into Copley every Monday night...
...from the small but purposive "Mayflower" was a gray land. The Puritan mind was a gray mind. But Harvard College owes its existence to that gray land, to that gray mind. For out of the dull, hard labor of founding a home, a church, a college upon the rugged, seldom cooperative soil of New England grew the heritage which is Harvard's respect for the responsibility of freedom. Perhaps that responsibility is gray to others. It cannot be gray to the Harvard student. The colors of accomplishment have long tinted the dulness with delight. This freedom--this responsible freedom...
...miners and Laborites who have not seldom hanged "Murderer Churchill" in effigy, proved so receptive to the new compromise that a slogan ran through the coal fields last week: "Churchill will fix it!" The owners, slow to relax their demands, nevertheless announced that "in deference to Mr. Churchill" they would take his proposals under intensive advisement. Finally it was apparent to all that Premier Baldwin displayed great shrewdness in letting "Winnie" turn the Cabinet's somersault...
Queen High. Seldom has Manhattan been regaled with such diverting musical entertainment. Queen High deserves all the superlatives applicable to musical comedy...
Able Commander van der Kun, squeezing, sprucely attired, from his conning tower hatch, said: "We left Helder on May 27 and seldom steamed our maximum of 18 knots, since we are making a long distance run and cannot risk accidents. Because of our slow speed our voyage was similar to that of Columbus. Although, in case of an accident we would have been helpless without a mother ship, the men never showed a, qualm when we passed out of sight of land. . . . I am always pessimistic on a submarine, for that is safest. I do not let even...