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Charlemagne, who thirsted for culture as much as for conquest,* left his personal stamp on the manuscript art. He used to complain that the prevailing script was too knotty to read; to rectify it the Emperor invited the Northumbrian monk Alcuin to teach the Franks a comparatively simple hand inherited from the days of Roman rule. The script did not stay simple: by the 13th Century, manuscript texts had become as tangled as briar patches. The gnarled letters of ladies' prayer books were twined about with ornamental thorns, and even the page borders swarmed with children and gargoyles...
...radio are as simple as a stone ax. The program that attracts the biggest audience is the best program. The highest accolade that radio can offer is conferred on aerial shows by a statistical organization, Cooperative Analysis of Broadcasting (Crossley). Last week C. A. B.'s Manager Alcuin Williams Lehman, in the pages of the trade journal Broadcasting-Broadcast Advertising, conferred radio's patents of nobility...
...GREENOUGH.THERE will be no exercise in Philosophy 16 today. Next Tuesday there will be an hour examination on Montaigne's Pedantry, Books, The Education of Children. The abstracts of West's Alcuin need not be handed in until...