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...ownership, but it cannot be too clearly pointed out that this should not establish a precedent for a general University housing program. The difficulties of managing isolated units and keeping everybody happy are too great to warrant the University's participation in work of this sort unless under the utmost duress of necessity. Happily the Harvard Housing Trust, as has been pointed out, has largely removed the likelihood of such obligation...
...throughout the country is Spence. Since its founding it has remained Manhattan's strictest, most fashionable boarding school. Preparatory School youths who telephone Spence inamoratas find they may not speak to them. The pupils who take their exercise on Fifth Avenue or through Central Park are chaperoned with utmost vigilance. Whether teaching Shakespeare or speaking to her Chinese butler, Thomas, or playing with her two Pekinese, Miss Spence always used to insist upon "tone." Her purpose was "to develop a perfect gentlewoman, intellectually firm, and having, poise, simplicity and graciousness." The new trustees, and the revitalized alumnae were fully...
...conversation he had with me at the Elysée Palace," declared M. Poincaré, "the American Ambassador said, 'If Paris is taken, I will display our star-spangled banner over your monuments and museums! I will go to the utmost limits of my power to protect the inhabitants against pillage and oppression...
...screen presentation "The Crash" concerns the romance of a girl from a burlesque show and the boss of a wrecking crew. Their troubles and quarrels in a small town are extended to the utmost...
...still abundant on the subject of the House Plan nothing has been offered by University officials towards remedying this lack. Suitable living accommodations are important factors in providing for the welfare of the student but they are only one phase of the problem and it would be the utmost folly to develop them to the exclusion of the no less essential teaching facilities...