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...rendered good service. He has brought before us the sufferings, the unconquerable energy and optimism of the men who fought our Revolution. The March to Quebec in itself was memorable, but the spirit of the men who wandered, stumbled, and always rose to continue is preserved in these edited first-hand accounts...
...First-Hand Knowledge...
Justice Reed referred to the undergraduate enterprise as the best way the college undergraduate can keep himself in touch with current topics of national importance." He stressed the significance of obtaining this information concerning politics, economics and foreign affairs in "a first-hand manner," rather than "through textbooks and periodicals which are often out of date before reaching the hands of the public...
...individual professor who set each class its problem. To this complaint Professor Gropius lent a sympathetic ear, changed the system. Another Gropius innovation was instruction in industrial design by Marcel Breuer, a Hungarian designer who is credited with having developed the first tubular chair. Now in prospect are workshops where Breuer pupils may learn at first-hand the uses of modern materials. But the most extraordinary proof of Architect Gropius' success is a requirement soon to be adopted by the Harvard Architectural School: that no student can graduate unless he has had six months' hard labor...
...30th wedding anniversary; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Successively hotel clerk, reporter, editor, press agent, free-lance columnist. O. O. Mclntyre wrote about Manhattan for village folk-for the people of Gallipolis, Ohio, his home town, among others-in fustian prose, sprinkled with fictional references to the great, first-hand description of accidents, nostalgic contrast of city and village. Sickly for years, he prowled Manhattan for material in a Rolls-Royce. Part of his legacy: 50 columns written in advance...