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Named for Dr. K.T. Compton, honorary alumnus of Harvard, former head of the Physics department at Princeton and now president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a trophy cup of old English gilt silver is being given by the student body of Technology for perpetual competition between Harvard, Princeton, and M.I.T. in a crew race to be held each spring...
...young soldier dying in his Mothers' arms, is under the dome of the narthex. Under the insignia of the United States that caps the dome, is the seal of Harvard University set in the marble floor. The names of the soldiers appear by departments and classes in bronze gilt letters placed on tablets of travertine...
...make no impress; to the skeptic it would be sadly bromidic. It is sufficient to draw the obvious analogy. To the average undergraduate, such a performance as the Rollins oath appears a trifle suggestively reminiscent of those faded, shrunken khaki dungarees once the foil for a pretty gilt badge...
...Chicago's North Side stands the White Elephant Rummage Shop, a gloomy brownstone repository for the cast off knicknacks of Society. There in an undignified jumble are gilt chairs, slightly nicked, hand painted lamps, ormulu clocks, embossed silverware, picture frames, bronze cupids and napoleons. Back & forth among them move questing vultures: second-hand dealers, boarding house keepers, inquisitive ladies of uncertain...
While the wolf is now far from McCall's office in Manhattan's gilt-topped New York Central Building, the magazine has not been untouched by the 1930-32 slump. And President Warner has authorized the tactics which succeeded before: spending money on editorial revision. This week the result appeared in McCall's October issue...