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Said Berlin's authoritative, independent Vossische Zeitung last week: "He who was elected by part of the people is today the chosen of the whole nation. . . . This dispassionate man, by the glamour of his historic name,* by the dignity he has brought to his great office, has achieved a romantic nimbus...
...publicity that other phases do. Occasionally this is caused by the unwillingness of a specific department to broadcast its findings, believing that the interested parties will soon learn of its progress. But almost without, exception the lack of publicity can be attributed to another reason--there is no glamour for the public in the reading of scientific achievements. Sports and social events have always made a greater general appeal. To the majority of readers these news items are more personal, whereas the advances that scholars have made are "caviar to the general...
...presents Shakespeare that lacks glamour but makes sense. His Hamlet and Shylock are thoroughly understandable men beset by "equally perceivable woes. His Petruchio is an excruciating shrew-tamer. During his first Manhattan week he also played Macbeth, Malvolio (Twelfth Night), Richard...
Radcliffe and Wellesley students will lend some glamour to the group which wil represent Harvard at an Hi-Y conference the latter part of this month. At Providence a few days later there will be a conference for preparatory school boys with college representatives. At the same conference Professor Hocking will lead a special group for headmasters and masters...
There is, 1 believe, a certain glamour about Harvard that helps to set it apart from all other American universities. Whether that peculiar fascination has its basis in Harvard's age--its 294th freshman class is at present engaged in struggling with "English A" or whether it springs from Harvard's pre-eminent scholarship, or whether those factors are minor, are questions which I am attempting to decide...