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Associate Dean Robert B. Watson is expected to approve the charter of the Athenaeum today, in the first attempt in 26 years to establish a University counter-part of the Oxford Union...
...next time you attend a dance, notice what has happened to the stage line. It's gone. That's what's happened. And in its place, lathes and blow torches left behind, are lined the female counter-part of the pre-war wolf. Pretty? Oh, yes! - Good dancer? By all means! Intelligent? Foxy's the word, son. God conversationalist? She can tell you all about additional allowances...
...century. A charming old house in Berkley Square with its glamorous traditions of lovely ladies and powdered wigs forms the background in which the half-forgotten specters of the past are brought once more to life. Peter Standish, Leslie Howard, a man of the present with an Eighteenth century counter-part is enchanted by the historic flavor of the past with its sedan chairs and coaches, but when he finds himself immersed in the actualities that went along with this former charm he realizes that went along with this former charm he realizes that the present has a compensation...
...enlisted in these camps and immediately formed into the flying squadron as an active participant in the movement, or by violent reaction against such exploitation he has withdrawn either into quasi-Oriental mysticism or the idealistic medieval romance of the wandering student of old. Such movements have practically no counter-part in the United States. In spite of capitalist and Communist the American college student is still remote from current world movements. In his leisure day he is chiefly concerned with his own affairs...
...educated man with whom the average American college graduate compares unfavorably. Granting this, it does not follow that the Harvard system is inferior to that of Oxford or Cambridge. In England the two great universities are only parts of a large and comprehensive system of education which finds no counter-part in the United States. Most students at Oxford and Cambridge come from one class of society well marked from other classes by its long tradition of cultural activity. This is not true in the United States to nearly so large a degree. Many American college graduates are the first...