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When Gossard was strikebound last summer and the garment workers could not come to terms with President Lee Varley, who has now retired, it was Savard who stepped in and settled the trouble. The strike, coupled with reduced promotional activities, had clipped Gossard's profit 82% last year. When Savard moved into his new job last week, a bunch of roses from the garment workers' union was on his desk. Said Savard: "Our competitors ran while we stood still, but now we're going...
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Take the case of Dr. J. Varley Roberis, who wanted music to be entered as a regular study in Oxford University Naturally he was met with strenuous opposition, but finally he won, and now from his observations extending over thirty years he records the remarkable fact that, although only ten percent of the great student body has been addicted to music study at the university, seventy five percent of the scholarship honors of the entire university have been won by this ten percent group...
...number of original drawings by masters of the old English water-color school are now on view at the Fogg Museum. The artists represented are: Samuel Prout, David Cox, Peter DeWint, Henry Edridge, Thomas Girtin, Paul Sanby and John Varley. These are all characteristic examples, and serve to show what were the artistic ideals, and the technical methods, which prevailed in the English School of the early part of the century now closing. While more or less conventional in both conception and treatment, these works are generally well composed and exhibit the skill in the use of pure water-color...