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...course was given to selected students from the eighteen public schools in Cambridge and the lecture topics included the Art of Egypt, the Cathedrals of the Middle Ages, Art Treasures of the Vatican, and American Colonial Silver Work. Special excursions were also made to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 2/18/1936 | See Source »

...eighteen or nineteen year old Freshman, if he goes to a graduate school, may never complete his formal education until he is twenty-seven, old enough to be Vice President of a First National Bank. Dean Leighton, after proving beyond all argument that seventeen year olds do quite as well as their elders in the Freshman Class, suggests that the age level of graduates from preparatory schools, especially private schools, be lowered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEAN LEIGHTON'S REPORT | 2/5/1936 | See Source »

...intoxicating mixture of spooks and nonsensical fun, "The Ghost Goes West", now showing at Keith Memorial, is just about the best thing in the last light-year of film reeled out of Hollywood. Jean Parker, just eighteen and refreshingly demure, is beautifully set by the skill of Rene Clair against the gentle sophistication of Robert Donat. And when haunts stop scaring you and make you laugh, you are bound to laugh twice as hard as usual...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/4/1936 | See Source »

...reply of equal length. Across the Council's green table he and Fascist Chief Delegate Baron Aloisi were mutually affable and smiling. Over Mr. Eden's vehement protest, M. Alexis Leger of France secured adoption of a proviso that further decisions by the League Sanctions Committee of Eighteen are not in themselves operative but "subject to the political decision of the governments." For the first time since Sanctions were adopted, Baron Aloisi was heard to laugh. The conditional assurances of France, Turkey, Yugoslavia and Greece of aid to Britain in certain circumstances, if the Empire is menaced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Diplomatic Billingsgate | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...FORTY THOUSAND SQUARE FEET OF IDEAS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR GETTING MORE HOUSEWARES VOLUME STOP YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO MISS THIS RARE FEATURE. Before leaving Chicago, buyers would order merchandise to the amount of $10,000,000. The Merchandise Mart can best be described as a store for storekeepers. Eighteen of its 21 floors are packed with clothes, curtains, rugs, chairs, tables, silverware, notions, toys, dishes, jewelry-all the merchandise commonly found in U. S. department stores. But the merchant is the customer and the manufacturer is the man-behind-the-counter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Storekeepers' Store | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

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