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...land west of Boston as uninhabitable desert. Even within the sacred confines of the Yard, the unfortunate myth of Harvard indifference has gained appalling credence. But innocent Harvard has too long blushed under the oft repeated charges of intellectual isolation and smug localism. The University, long ready to absorb such blows flush on its scholarly chin, has at last reared up and made some vigorous attempts to fight back, to polish up the tarnished reputation of the new world Cantabrigians. In order to encourage students from the wild and woolly West to spend their undergraduate days in the quiet...
...obscures them from public view. Thus obscurely in the years from 1914 to 1918 James Joyce labored in Trieste and Zurich over Ulysses, Marcel Proust labored in Paris over Remembrance of Things Past-two mighty realizations of European life which the next generation of writers and readers tried to absorb...
...widow of Lucius William Nieman, founder of the Milwaukee Journal, died leaving Harvard University $1,000,000 with which to ''elevate the standards of journalism." This week for the third time Harvard picked a group of working newsmen (15) to go to Cambridge, with salaries paid, to absorb whatever knowledge they thirst after as Nieman Fellows. Chosen from 221 applicants was a catholic list...
...concertgoers absorb more symphonic music than any others in the world. The extent of this absorption was charted last week in a statistic-studded volume by Margaret Grant &Herman S. Hettinger (of the Wharton School of Finance, University of Pennsylvania) with the help of the Carnegie Corporation (America's Symphony Orchestras-Norton...
Answer: "In the course of the last 20 years, France has had to absorb a refugee population of Russians, Italians, Jews, Germans, Austrians, Spaniards and Czechs, amounting to nearly 4,000,000 - one-tenth of the total population. . . . To compare the fate of these refugees to that of liberals in Germany, Russia or Spain today is nonsense...