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...experiences!) treasure-trove of all peoples and all generations: Roman temples and Parisian shops; Gothic of sorts (and out of sorts) from the 'carpenter-Gothic' of 1845 through Victorian of that ilk, to the most modern and competent recasting of ancient forms and restored ideals . . . delicate little Georgian ghosts, shrinking in their unpremeditated contact with Babylonian skyscrapers that poise their towering masses of plausible masonry on an unconvincing substructure of plate glass. And it is all contemporary . . . while it is all wildly and improbably different...
...Lieutenant Commander the Honorable Joseph Montague Kenworthy (heir to the ninth Baron Strabolgi), long a famed bulwark of Georgian Liberalism, grew so vexed at last with Mr. Lloyd George that he bolted without warning into the Laborite ranks of onetime (Jan.-Nov. 1924) Premier Ramsay Macdonald...
Here another counter-man, who refused to divulge his name, also spoke of the leisurely social practices of the cafeteria habitues. "They come in there," declared the Georgian Ganymede, who wore a white apron and cap, "just loaded down with books and papers, and get their lunch and make a regular library out of the place, spreading it thick all over the tables. And at night, there's a regular bunch of night-ows who stay here and do everything but hoot. I don't know anything about how fast they eat, but they do make a slow and sociable...
...Colonial Georgian outlines from Cambridge to Allston is not a college; it is a university. So when one complacently views the welcomed and feted members of the freshman class in the college and forgets the poor, straggling, unoriented souls who are to form the first year classes of the graduate schools, one is not thinking of his university in true terms...
...young men for their life after graduation. So in the comfort which already is possessed and in that further comfort which undoubtedly must come, one must remember that his particular duty as a member of Harvard is to keep the comfort of more bricks in nice and orderly Colonial Georgian from cloistering too completely his efficiency as a Harvard student...