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...blazing heat of a June afternoon, with flags flying, and confetti filling the air, Harvard once again gathers her brood about the maternal nest. With all the tradition and pomp accumulated through the centuries of a glorious past, the graduates old and new congregate to celebrate once again those four years of glowing life that Harvard has given to them. And all of the glitter and festivity, in spite of the fact that it is merely a passing show, reflects the spirit of appreciation that exists in those men whose true education began here...
...time he played other engagements at home and abroad, once touring the U. S. in The Merchant of Venice, as Shylock, whose lines he spoke in Yiddish while the other actors used English. Because adler means eagle in German, admirers dubbed him "The Eagle." Meanwhile the Eagle's brood increased. Suckled in the stage wings, they have all become capable actors. Son Charles ran away from home and joined an English circus, a Russian ballet. He has played roles in Russian, Polish, French, German, English, Yiddish. Son Adolph managed George Jessel's Jazz Singer. Son Irving has appeared...
...that her willing victims, though never forgetful, always forgive. Between diversions, Diana is the capable secret agent and business adviser of canny Millionaire Scherer. Only once is she the cause of tragedy: a duel in which a former lover kills her present one. No introvert, Diana does not often brood; and when she does, her pessimism is only of the morning after. "To taste of everything just once-in order to be able to despise everything." In Diana, Author Ludwig has tried to give the ideal of modern emancipated woman: a realistic romantic, he has called her by the name...
Lively and perennial is the dispute between the Modernists and Fundamentalists of pedagogy over the merits and morals of the jingles which Mrs. Elizabeth Foster Vergoose of17th Century Boston sang to her large brood of moppets and which her son-in-law, one T. Fleet, published in 1719 as Songs for the Nursery or Mother Goose's Melodies for Children...
...Freshman dormitories (Lowell's dream, Lowell's babies), the new school of Business Administration the "spotless town" of the forgotten advertisements made actuality by five Baker millions; Soldiers Field, Higginson's gift its stadium the focus of all conscious competition with other universities; the Medical School and its beneficent brood of hospitals the Arnold Arboretum miles away hundreds of acres of rare and exquisite shrubs of all possible varieties; even in Arizona astronomers observer the invisible planetary phenomena. The circle widens. But at the Center is the Yard where Harvard College has its being. It was the origin...