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...claim that the merger is unconstitutional the Councilor seems, however, to have scored a point. Harvard has been particularly unfortunate in its attempted mergers for some time. The proposed consolidations of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and of the Divinity School and Andover Theological Seminary were both quashed by Supreme Court decisions as illegal or unconstitutional. In the present instance again, though minor in importance, legal facts have apparently been overlooked or not given sufficient consideration. In a University possessing one of the greatest law schools in the world the repetition of these slips is strangely anomalous...
Leopold Auer, 81, unrivaled violin teacher: "Like my friend, Pianist Hofmann, I have just become a U. S. citizen. By birth Hungarian, I became in 1883 a Russian subject, in 1895 hereditary Russian nobleman, and in 1903 Russian State Councilor. As soloist to the Tsar, I succeeded the great composer-violinist Wieniaw-ski, but my chief pride is that my pupils have included Elman, Zimbalist, Heifetz. I have lived in the U. S. since 1918, following the Russian Revolution...
...Debate in the Commons was preceded by an almost unanimous outburst of cheering, which greeted Austen Chamberlain as he entered the assembly and proceeded to submit the motion for ratification. In the crowded balcony, the U.S. and Belgian Ambassadors and the Councilor of the German Embassy were present; they followed the ensuing speeches with eager attention...
...Alexander Montgomery Carlisle, Privy Councilor to George V, famed naval architect and designer of the Titanic, returned to England last week after a short visit to Wilhelm, onetime Kaiser, at Doorn...
...especially violent dispute centered about Character Steerforth, a friend of David Copperfield. Councilor Jack Salmon demanded to know "who he was before we name a street after him." Answered Councilor Hill, a dignified and venerable resident of Yarmouth, "Mr. Salmon, you will find out all about Steerforth by reading David Copperfield! . . . Although Dickens knew his Yarmouth and immortalized it, you don't seem to know your Dickens...