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...What impressed me most in the book," said he "was, first, the immense erudition and, secondly, the utter detachment of the Joycean standpoint, a God's eye view of life, so to speak...
From the standpoint of journalistic timeliness, the editors of The Harkness Hoot had the good fortune to defend elsewhere in their current issue the gubernatorial candidacy of Dr. Wilbur Lucius Cross, Dean Emeritus of the Yale Graduate School, now Governor-elect of Connecticut. And the announcement of a forthcoming appreciation of Author Sinclair Lewis, Yale 1907, coincided happily with last week's news that Author Lewis had won the Nobel Prize...
Barbara Kent as the secretary is satisfactory from the standpoint of looks, also acts well enough for the feminine lead in a one-man show. The supporting cast, while naturally in the background, is unusually good...
Despite the fact that there is no public sale of these tickets, the block of 22,999 seats allotted to the Hanoverans has been insufficient to meet the demands. From a Harvard standpoint, the applications just equalled the number of seats available, and totalled 34,480. The large over subscription at Hanover is unprecedented in Big Green history...
...trip is to procure all available data on American libraries, before the building of a new one for Cambridge University. While here, the visitors will look at Widener and the Baker Memorial libraries. Sir Scott, who is a prominent architect, is especially interested in American libraries from the standpoint of their construction; the group is also studying all mechanics of the buildings, such as the cataloguing and arrangement...