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Maybe a natural dullness has prevented me from becoming acquainted with all the Harvard customs--yet I must confess my observation of a new one the other day, The seating charts of one of the Law School Professors not only contain the seat numbers and names of the respective occupants, but, in addition, over each name is inserted the grade gained last year by each student. No doubt I have carelessly invaded the privacy of academic secrecy. But, tell me, is that one of your regular customs here at Harvard? Would a poll of the faculty assist any in reaching...
...recall a single year which could be called normal, in the sense that production and consumption exactly balanced. "We are now," he concluded, "in the midst of a crisis in the industry, and I have no desire to minimize the serious aspects of the situation, but I must confess that if the petroleum industry ever ceased to be abnormal I think I should find it very dull indeed...
...lining are the stolen bonds; concealed in the heroine's past is a presumably dead husband. The husband comes out of the past, the bonds out of the lining, and the heroine out of the coat. The faithful chauffeur appears with a revolver and forces the supposed husband to confess to looking exactly like his dead brother and to stealing the bonds. Then comes the punch of the play. It turns out?you'll hardly believe this?it turns out that the revolver wasn't loaded...
...shades of Don Juan and Cleopatra and all other historic fascinators, looking on, confess themselves beaten. One look of their eyes might captivate a paltry dozen of admirers?but the modern movie hero or movie heroine ranks his or her adorers by the gross...
...instance, I must confess that a Frenchman is somewhat disturbed and somewhat at a loss when he reads the catalogue of your courses. The minute--to him too minute--specialization of subjects, of courses, of examinations, the watertight compartments where you have in the sciences as in jail, go against the idea which we have formed of the unity of knowledge. I have never very plainly known, here at Harvard, whether I was an economist gone astray in the historical field, or an historian lost among the economic tribe, being actually a man whose ambition is nothing...