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...Oxford still was able to lend its tutorial system to Harvard. Heidelberg dropped from sight. Nor could the chaos which followed peace in Germany prove any more tempting to foreign interests than the state of actual war. Sofa to say, that America would ever treat with importance the conditions extant in German universities while the mark was tied to a toy balloon...
When asked if the Labor Party might be France's saviour, he replied, "The parties which call themselves Labor in France are divided into Communists and Socialists, neither of which has the spirit extant in England. There is no chance of their cooperation, for they hate each other bitterly. The Communists take their orders from Moscow, and the Socialists from 'the State'. But 'the State' as an institution is dying...
...universal storm of protest as revealed in now extant newspapers seems to show how deeply this fatal restriction of the chief incentive of American business was resented, and how widespread was the resultant depression. None, when faced with such evidence, can deny the probability that this psychological catastrophe may have broken the spirit of an emotional people, and left them defenceless against material disaster; but much hard work remains to be done after the manner of these brilliant discoveries before all the mists of the past are blown away, and the aboriginal American is seen and understood by the modern...
Probably the rarest and most valuable ushibit in the collection is a copy of Dr. Johnson's Prologue. This somewhat obscure piece was spoken at the Drury Lane Theatre in 1747 and the copy on display is the only one which is now extant...
Professor Lanman is internationally famous for his researches in Indian Philology and for his work in editing the Harvard Oriental Series, which is the most authoritative extant translation of Oriental writings. He was born in Norwich, Connecticut, in 1850, and at the age of 17 entered Yale. After graduating from the college and Scientific School, he went to Tuebingen, Germany to study under the great Sanskritist, Rudolph Roth...