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...been presented with a modern play, a play in which the action deserts the wings on several occasions for the very stage itself; a circumstance quite out of the classical French tradition. An invasion of her castle grounds by a mob and the epilogue wherein she is guillotined furnish her with the harshest of realities. And Madame Sorel treats them with that same graceful, classic restraint which leaves them empty of matter however admirable the form. Give her an abstraction of the more important realities and a concretion of the trivialities and she is more than a forthright American mind...
...Government is under no obligation to furnish the people with alcohol that is drinkable when the Constitution prohibits it. The person who drinks this industrial alcohol is a deliberate suicide. . . . To root out a bad habit costs many lives and long years of effort...
...form, the feature will not vary from precedent. The criticism of each course will be a succinct attempt to present an honest criticism of the subject and its manner of presentation. The criticism is at least not avowedly destructive, and the purpose is rather to furnish undergraduates with some better source of information on the courses which are open to them than exists at present...
Professor Willits is particularly interested in the education of men who will later be handling business positions which furnish problems of industrial relations. "The position of Harvard in the academic world is such that a member of the faculty of any other university must always follow developments here," he observed when asked his opinion of Harvard's new Business School developments. "This Business School and all others are engaged in developing a professional education for business after the models or on the basis of the experience of the law and medical schools in their respective fields. The new buildings...
...cases, for foreign students to come to this country for a three or four year period to study, though they may have no intention whatsoever of a permanent sojourn. The law requires a foreign student desiring to enter the United States outside the quota of his country first to furnish proof that he has been admitted to an American educational institution, and second, what is more difficult, to establish proof to the American consul that he intends to return to his own country at the end of a stated time. What constitutes proof rests at the discretion of the consul...