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...Professor Adams's impressions of Harvard, he stated that all Englishmen are surprised at the antiquity and traditions of Harvard. He quoted one friend as saying, "Why they speak of what they were doing at Harvard 275 years ago, that's an old college...
Sirs: The urge to write a letter comes to all Englishmen-they address it to the London Times. The same urge comes to Americans-they send it to TIME. But do you have to print letters like that of Mary Elizabeth Robinn? We gravely suspect Miss Robinn of being one of that shining galaxy of women who wear spectacles, carry Boston bags and hold degrees from at least three universities. Or maybe-this is mere conjecture, but we feel it may hit the mark-she is still smarting from being one of those American girls whom the Prince couldn...
...betters is edifying but to express one's own personality is more amusing. Ring Lardner can convulse It is readers with a tense drama, the scene of which is laid on a bath mat. Very few Englishmen, however, and very few Victorians would see any humor in Mr. Lardner. And similarly with Donald Ogden Stewart, Robert Benchley--although he is more universal than the rest--and Milt Gross. The fact that there are at least five magazines who make a business of culling their material from the files of university and college publications all over the nation would appear...
...that they have no ability to meet the new conditions. And therein lies the essential reason for the economic prosperity of America and the depression of England, with its resultant Labor agitation. Instead of theorizing and regretting new conditions. America meets them, and makes the best of them, while Englishmen are at a loss for a course of action...
Scotchmen, Frenchmen, Englishmen, Jews, Gentiles, Mormons, Spaniards, Venetians, Egyptians, every nation who has a distinctive dress (excepting the sophomores) were portrayed...