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...edition. Other pictures in that issue: A "3,000-year-old bas-relief of priceless worth," showing Assyrian gentlemen, playing the saxophone, their ladies drinking cocktails through straws at a bar. Scenes of "Al Capone at Home," showing the gangster's "Louis Quinze" boudoir through an enormous circular bank-vault door; an unwary visitor plunging through a trap door as Capone, sitting at a richly carved desk, presses a pushbutton; Capone's "daughter" stepping into her armored limousine big as a moving van. A similar but not so expert array of faked pictures was published April...
...great rug of gold, red & black with a geometric pseudo-oriental pattern - designed by Publisher Howard and made in China to his order. The furniture is of lacquer red, trimmed with black. At the red desk are red dictaphone, jars of white jade for clips and pens. A circular mirror five feet in diameter, framed in red and black, hangs on the wall behind the publisher's chair...
...editorial from the Boston Herald reprinted in an adjoining column that paper comments all together too lightly on a subject that is meant to be serious and merits correspondingly grave comment. The circular referred to was sent to the graduates for the commendable purpose of raising more money in order that Harvard may more truly be called "our greatest university." As President Lowell stated in a recent report, Harvard will always be in need of more money if education here and elsewhere is to continue to progress. This latest drive follows the Harvard policy of progress at any price...
More immediate than the above danger is the possibility that such a circular will antagonize those to whom it is addressed. To be told how perfect an institution is and then in the same breath to be asked to contribute to help is more than some will be able to understand. The average graduate cannot be expected to know that a university cannot be perfect. On the contrary his reaction to such words is to question the necessity of this additional drain on his pocketbook. In the vast amount of building at Harvard he sees a great affluence...
...superlatives do seem to be some-what more numerous than they would have been if President Eliot or President Lowell had issued the statements, but the circular is really not so immodest after all. It includes one "probably" and one "perhaps," and says nothing at all about the Bussey Institute, the graduate school of arts and sciences, the glass flowers, the recent gratifying football experience with Yale, and the permanent rustication of a young man who wafted a specimen of citrus fruit at Rudy. If this appeal does not make graduates loosen up, they have no sense of relative values...