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...Ancient Roman, Quintus Fabius Maximus Cunetator ("The Delayer") who deployed Rome's legions with such persistent avoidance of battle that when at last he was ready to fight, the wearied Carthaginians were routed. In case the mild tactics of Quintus Fabius Maximus (died 203 B. C.) do not avail in 1937, II Duce and Der Führer can always get tough...
...paintings. Under the name of each artist was a brief and extremely reticent biography. One of these referred to a Spanish artist named Maurice Utrillo, 1883-deceased, painter of Paris street scenes. Within a week the catalog was withdrawn from circulation and a correction was made, but to no avail...
...will, individually and collectively, reject the counsels of force. Let us hold out to a darkened world the beacon of a just and permanent peace which we pledge ourselves to maintain on this American Continent. May the spirit and the example which we have consecrated here be of avail throughout the world...
...when they deserve holidays. When President Warren, stately, handsome daughter of the headmaster of Albany (N. Y.) Academy for boys, succeeded President Marion Coats in 1929, she put through a charter enabling the college to give a four-year course, grant A. B. degrees. Though few Sarah Lawrence girls avail themselves of the longer course, under Miss Warren the enrolment has grown, to 277, tuition has been shaved from $1,800 to $1,700. President Warren's last big day in the news came when she forbade students to hitchhike to Yonkers for the afternoon for fear that they...
...thing about card stunts. They, at least, are easy to stop. But a different problem arises with a band. Some pretty important people did their best to turn off Harvard's band just before the start of the third period in the Navy game Saturday, but to no avail...