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...blame, he goes back only to June 1937. Since then: ". . . Neither industry nor Government has come forth with constructive proposals designed to meet the problems of the depression. The Federal Congress, lacking adequate or competent leadership . . . has failed to devise or enact a single statute that would cause a glimmer of hope to penetrate the minds of millions of despairing Americans...
Julian L. Coolidge '95, Master, made the featured address of the evening. He spoke of the traditions Lowell has which may be traced back of its eight years of existence. Richards M. Glimmer, Director of Admissions, spoke at length about the workings and aims of the Board of Admissions. Elliot H. Knowlton '38, now Chairman of the House Committee, read from the diary of a member of Lowell House...
...nonsense." The press so disgusted him that he confined his reading to the sports page: "You've got to have some certainties at breakfast. You've got to have some English written in a style living, appropriate, honest.'' In U. S. vulgarity he saw a glimmer of light. "Vulgar people exist everywhere. We are perhaps the only nationally vulgar people. And therein dwells not alone our predicament, but our hope...
Where the crosses glimmer...
...victim of amnesia, whose inability to remember his own name is only less astonishing than the fact that he is driving a big car and appears to have unlimited quantities of $100 bills, which he hides under rugs and between the slats of Venetian blinds. A faint glimmer of self-recognition flickers when a horse he is riding in the effort to find out whether or not he is a renowned polo player throws him into a pond, where he encounters the famed Penner duck. During the commencement exercises at the school which, as anticipated, take the form of routine...