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...many of its correspondences, dreams, and borderland apprehensions of a bottomless past, this book has the gooseflesh resonance of a well-made poem, full of dim, sentient suggestions of a religious fatality. Its whole treatment is somber, muted, ardent. As a confused, cryptic painting-a portrait of a personal absorption rather than a public communication -it is moving. Yet, within its arbitrary framework, it convincingly clarifies nothing about destiny...
...last copy next Wednesday afternoon, a hundred year landmark will fall from the ranks of Boston's better traditions. With its finale goes a profoundly respected paper, one of the few remaining which refuse to bend to the winds of sensationalism. Harvard will lose a friend, an ardent promoter of educational interests rather than sprawling headlines...
Hottest cry of all came from crinkle-headed "Dry" Thomas Magnay, member from Gateshead, an accountant and ardent bowler, who drinks only water and dry ginger ale. Shouted he: "All things that are sweet and reasonable and Christian are being more and more jeered at and flouted. . . . We know that art and literature have been befouled. ... In literature every man is a cad and every woman a vamp. . . . We have the devotees of St. Vitus' dance called Jazz . . . volplaning down the descending scale. You hear crooners breaking their hearts every night-if anybody broke their necks I should...
First to raise an alarm was Harvard's President James Bryant Conant. An ardent champion of the draft law, he nevertheless warned U.S. officials last year that efficient national defense required that future scientists and engineers be allowed to finish their training. Two months ago a National Committee on Education and Defense called a conference of bigwig educators in Washington, heard an almost unanimous plea that Congress continue the system of deferring conscription of students until the end of their school year...
First on the list of speakers is Bart J. Bok, associate professor of Astronomy, and ardent Faculty supporter of the food plan, who will tell why the problem of food relief is of immediate and pressing importance. Following him is Lucien Brouha, physiologist to the Grant Study, who plans to cover the physiological aspects of hunger. Third speaker is William Y. Elliott, professor of Government, who opposes the plan unless it is done through the auspices of the United States Government. Finally, Henry J. Cadbury, Hollis Professor of Divinity, who has recently returned from Europe, will discuss the relation...