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...habit, while discussing this matter, to lay the blame on the doorstep of the Freshman adviser. This is convenient, easy, and unfair. For the province of the adviser is bounded by the limitations of the word advice, by his own business, and most of all by the initiative of his charges. Further, since he is thus constricted it becomes evident that the adviser can play no great part in any plan to matriculate the Freshman more completely, and more speedily...
...most producers of Shakespeare these terse instructions for The Merchant of Venice call for a papier-maché doorstep (left), a canvas backdrop with houses painted on a postcard blue sky. To Producer Max Reinhardt they call for nothing less than a street in Venice. Therefore in that Italian city last week Herr Professor Reinhardt produced a "localization" of The Merchant of Venice...
...University of Kansas: "We have dumped at the portals of your life one of the most elaborate metallic scrap heaps that the history of civilization has recorded. A gaudy bauble it is. It shimmers with the simulation of bright reality, this modern civilization that we leave on your doorstep. It roars, it clatters, it shrieks and hums like a going concern. It will do almost anything but work. It is jammed - may I say in three classic haunts, jimmed, gypped and some of it is ready to be junked." In the Administration Building of Chicago's Century of Progress...
...baby left on Franklin Roosevelt's Albany doorstep by Alfred Emanuel Smith, and which he has come to cherish, is the projected hydro-electric power development on the St. Lawrence in New York State. The President prodded the matter along last week by urging the Senate to pass the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Deep Waterway Treaty with Canada, necessary preliminary step before any dam can be built...
...first day Sato quailed as sirens howled over the entire Tokyo area of 5,000,000 people. He trotted to his doorstep with pails of water, set them outside to extinguish imaginary fires. Overhead he saw enemy planes in small formations zooming out of the mist, circling over parks and department store roofs where anti-aircraft guns spat upward. Suddenly the street blossomed with colored vapors, to indicate that poison gas and incendiary bombs had been dropped. He coughed in good earnest as a smoke screen smelling like burning rubber billowed down on him. Suddenly the street was streaked with...