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...tutorial reading, as well as certain current periodicals of special interest to students of History, Literature, Science, and Economics are here. In addition, the general reader can find a wealth of biography and fiction. The well-arranged stacks with small desks for study are a convenient and important adjunct of the library. Since the first of the year an attractive show case for rare book collections has been acquired. A great deal of interest has been taken in this project, and several exhibits have already been made. Others, showing the hobbies of House members will be displayed. A music room...
...left off. "You don't have to wait until bedtime. . . . There are plenty of occasions during the day, for instance, when you are fatigued or fingers or toes are cold, or for no reason at all except that you need something warm and stimulating." Milk is an efficacious adjunct to alcoholic liquors because, more than any other food, it inhibits intoxication by retarding the accumulation of alcohol in the blood. By itself, alcohol is not warming; it produces an illusory glow by increasing the amount of blood in the skin, but this glow causes excess radiation of body heat...
...process by which Harvard came to be such an important adjunct to the existence and happiness of nearby social lights was probably a complicated one, but in the end it all comes down to economics, to the necessarily large import trade in eligible males, drunk or sober. Having suffered the drain of this trade for many years, having been fed off the fat of the filled land, having danced to expensive orchestras night after night, Harvard is still a bit prone to echo ungratefully Adams' sentiments; to decide, in the gray awakening after a champagne coming...
...family ever since. The company now has 3, 500 looms scattered through Switzerland, Italy, Germany and the U. S. Emil J. Stehli, grandson of the founding Statt halter and president of Stehli Silks Corp., came to the U. S. in 1897 to establish an importing house as an adjunct to Zurich's Stehli & Co. Importing of Stehli silks proved profitable until the Dingley tariff ended it forever. As U. S. manufacturers do today in foreign lands, the resourceful Stehlis promptly started manufacture of silks safe within the tariff wall. Now the U. S. branch of the family business...
Spence parents learned what Chandor parents have known for 15 years, that Miss Chandor used to assist at the oldtime Charlton School, which the Rockefeller Foundation bought 15 years ago and turned into Lincoln School, the experimental adjunct of Teachers College, Columbia. Charlton parents persuaded Miss Chandor to start up on her own, which she did with 40 girls in East 62nd Street. Quietly, carefully, successfully ever since she has run her Chandor School, choosing 100 girls for character and breeding sooner than wealth, keeping classes small, teaching always herself, emphasizing scholarship, urging college afterwards but making sure her girls...