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Berkeley Square is a dignified and cerebral romance based on the Bergsonian-Einsteinian notion of Time, which hints that past, present and future are illusory, that the impression of fleeting moments, hours and years is not to be trusted. Suggested by Henry James's Sense of the Past, written by...
The Union could appreciably increase the opportunity for a large number of students to widen their acquaintance with the best teachers of Harvard, even if this acquaintance be of necessity limited only to the fleeting contact between a lecturer and his listeners. It is to be hoped that tonight's...
General Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff, paid the "war" a fleeting visit, inspected the field of action. Said he: "This war game constitutes the biggest and best tactical campaign ever waged on American soil by the U. S. Army." Just what it all meant strategically he left to the...
Newsgatherers who lurked in the steady rain about the guard-encircled grounds of the white-shingled house were not much more fortunate. They caught but fleeting glimpses of Anne Morrow and her pilot as they jounced hastily by in a yellow beach wagon, pleasure bound.
Evergreens are posted here and there to stimulate the quiet and charm of a New Hampshire hillside; and on the morning after, the casual visitor is greeted by a scene not unlike that of the familiar New England cut-over slashing. Some meagre punster who professes to se humor in...