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...overflowed into education, for he endowed Harvard with several scholarships, a pasture, and Stoughton Hall. In 1700, during Increase Mather's presidency, Stoughton "College" was built at right angles to the cast end of Harvard Hall. The second brick building in the Yard, it had three stories and an attic lighted by dormer windows...
...attic of Busch-Reisinger Museum the University hides one of its poorest relations-the department of public speaking. With a shoe-string budget and but one permanent staff member, the speech department is on a starvation diet which seems encouraged, if not planned, by the University...
...young girls, their father and mother and the fortyish divorced woman who owns the castle--all are singularly purposeless. They neither concern themselves with the world at large, nor wish to, until the eldest daughter, Jane, finds a packet of love letters in a dusty trunk in the attic. This event, of course, changes all their lives, for the author of these billet doux was none other than the one great passion of both the elderly women in the castle. He had died on a foreign field in World War I. By falling in love with the love-letters. Jane...
...WORLD OF LOVE, by Elizabeth Bowen (224 pp.; Knopt; $3.50), is not a tempest but a great calm in a teapot. In the attic of a ramshackle Irish country house, adrift in the summer doldrums, a beautiful girl finds a batch of old love letters. Their author-a dashing young man, dead these many decades, to whom the girl's mother was once engaged-now comes strangely to life. Around his memory, three women begin to dance slowly, lazily, like tired butterflies: the young girl, who falls in love with the shade she raised; the mother, scatterbrained and scatterhearted...
...instinct, and to some a career. When the tax collector comes to inspect his house, his books and his way of life for an estimate of his income, the practiced, big-time evader sends his new American car to the country, brings down his shabbiest furniture from the attic, gives the servants the day off, and greets the collector in a borrowed suit...