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...Indian universities, the question has been solved in the same way. English is the language of education, like Latin in the days before the European tongues crystallized into definite form. Probably the reaction of India in favor of native languages, native traditions and literature will have its counterpart in Czecho-Slovakia if English is too widely employed. At present, however, nothing retards its extensive use in advertising and road signs; even means, which are often printed in French here, to the dismay of unsophisticated patrons, appear in English in Czecho-Slovakia...
...Architectural School and that of Landscape Architecture, it is hoped to build up in Cambridge a center of artistic study and practice. Such a group would offer a great opportunity for expert training, and "friendly competition" with Technology and the art schools of Boston would become an American counterpart of the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. In working towards such a goal Dean Edgell and his associates are materially contributing to the expansion of Harvard as a true university...
...easy for any member of the University. The regular organized sports offer a natural solution; but for the man whose time or inclination forbids them, there is a sufficiency of other answer. Tennis has become by all odds the most popular pastime for good weather; in winter its indoor counterpart, squash, holds equal popularity. Both of these are well provided for at the University; about fifty tennis courts are already in play, and a score or so more planned. Squash courts, too, are numerous, and their number rapidly being increased. Furthermore, a tennis instructor has recently been engaged with...
...surrounding bill is adequate, but certainly no more. Any who may recall that delightful playlet "Kisses" of seven years ago, will be woefully disappointed in its present counterpart "Wednesday at the Ritz". An ingenious setting whereby the stage is divided into "Parlour, Bedroom, and Bath" forms the background for a farce which is marked by the comparative novelty of its plot and the hopeless commonplaceness of its lines. A long way from the "all-star" bill of seven years past...
...Institutde France. The new volumes are called "Buddhist Legends", and are translations by Dr. E. W. Burlingame of a story-book written in the sacred language of Buddhism, the Pall, in Ceylon, 450 A. D. They give a vivid picture of ancient monastic life in India; a direct counterpart of the Legends of the Christian Saints...