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...scholastic pulse has been quickened by the raising of admission standards. Far more discrimination now enters into decisions of the Committee than in the halcyon days of the early twenties. The President's scholarship program has also infused better blood into the student body. Although only recently dropped into the Harvard pond, the small group of Conant scholars already spreads its influence in widening rings...
...Halcyon days of the U. S. sport of gliding were in 1929. Airplane tycoons like Richard Hoyt, Sherman Fairchild, Giuseppe Bellanca, William Stout, spent big money to promote it because expert glider pilots can easily learn to fly motored planes. Detroit Aircraft Corp. purchased Gliders, Inc., biggest U. S. glider manufacturer, planned to sell gliders at cost. Glider clubs began to be organized. Conservative enthusiasts predicted 1,000,000 glider pilots...
Amid echoes of recent Russo-Japanese border fighting and with the general European situation anything but halcyon, the note of friendship struck at the London Naval Conference loses nothing by contrast. Indeed, the Davis-Eden exchange of assurances is perhaps the only clearly perceivable result of many months of arduous but ineffectual labor...
...years graduates have adopted the attitude that Harvard belongs only to those favored men who received their degrees back in the halcyon days of Republicanism, prosperity, and prohibition. They forget in their selfish possessiveness that the college exists for the training of youth and not for the sole purpose of providing a sacred shrine whose keys are possessed by representatives of a past generation...
Herbert Marshall hasn't done anything as refreshing as "Accent on Youth" since the halcyon days of "Trouble in Paradise" with Miriam Hopkins. This latest vehicle is about a middle-aged playwright who falls in love with a girl of twenty-six, but doubts his ability to hold her against the onslaught of youth. And the onslaught is not long in arriving-in the form of a Princeton...