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...products of post-war university expansion in the U.K., but the difference is no greater than that between Harvard and a Mid-West American college. Indeed, the "superior" atmosphere common to both "Oxbridge" and Ivy League (which many affect to despise, but secretly covet) may make things seem even cosier. There are the same manicured lawns, lay-out of staircase and quadrangle, dining clubs and societies, even the same assiduous cultivation of alumni and roll-calls of the "great and just" shuttling through to impart their wisdom to the student body...
...stone walls, the team emerged with a picture of a Russia that might be nearing "the stage of eventual breakthrough to a tolerably affluent urban society" but that is still addicted to production and marketing methods that are "economically screwy." Some day the West might find it a "cosier" country to live with, said the Economist. But for the present, "this is a country where free thinking is still a very timorous beastie...
George Bernard Shaw is one of the few men who is just as good as he thinks he is. For although "Candida" is a play of cosier and snugger England, safe from air raids and the Red menace, there is nothing cost or snug or dated about the bearded Fabian's timeless masterpiece. Nor is there anything dated about Cornelia Otis Skinner who looks almost too young for thirty year old Candida...
Miss Gale seems inclined to substitute class discussion for examinations. There is much to be said for this idea; it is about time that the principle of the witenagemot be introduced into the class-room. Relations between instructors and students should be cosier and more chatty. The human touch should be felt even in analytic chemistry and Romance philology. But with all the good will in the world we must point out that if there be class discussion, undergraduates must attend classes, and that will interfere very much with their more serious activities. But this is mere criticism. What will...
...heavy fine for indulging in this pursuit, and Judge Ladd threatened the next offender brought before him with three weeks in jail. We doubt if even the sign-stealer, with his fine sense of the ludicrous, would like to change his pleasant Holworthy room for the even cosier quarters of Charles-Street jail. Not only this, but the Cambridgeport policemen-misguided beings-unappreciative of little but important differences to which the student mind is keen, look upon sign-stealing as anything but humorous, and have taken to shooting at "sign-raggers." The huge joke of sign-stealing does not come...
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