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Fascists snapped to attention last week, carried out curt orders in haste. Il Duce's logical and ruthless spirit was astir. Before the week was out he haded has "an Augustan conception of grandeur." 3) Decreed, to the discomfiture of Fascismo's capitalist well-wishers, that every merchant in Italy must display both the wholesale and retail price of his goods, and must throw open his books to the Government, which will permit him to make no more than what it considers a fair profit. 4) Inaugurated a tax on bachelors, the proceeds of which will be devoted...
Already, last week, the chemistry world was astir with impending events. Delegations from nine European countries, from Japan and South America, poured in. Leading his French colleagues was Chemist Paul Sabatier, Nobel prizeman in 1912, dean of the science faculty at Toulouse University. The senior chemists of many another famed university were expected...
...undergraduate madness in shifting courses, the rival college, and many other particular elements of life in Cambridge are made fun of so that anyone could understand the reasons. Yet like Goldsmith's "History of England", this Lampoon does "no harm to nobody." It simply keeps the College healthily astir and confronts it with a modest image of itself at the present moment...
...Andelys, 60 miles down the Seine from Paris, a school of impressionistic art has thrived for nearly 100 years under such masters as Claude Monet, Pisarro and Cezanne. Once a year the village is astir with an exhibition which students hold in Balzac's old home...
...strike a bolder note, but there are few such highly seasoned passages. By far the greater part of the volume is given over to harmless tinklings. The section of war poems is interesting. Surely here, I thought, will be poems that show the heart and imagination of our colleges astir and aflame. But the poems selected are all of a neutral tinge and most of them of a pacifist taint; possibly they reflect the personal prejudices and predilections of Mr. Schnittkind. There is not one that breathes the spirit of hearty indignation, healthy hate, and noble devotion that I believe...