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...altogether fitting that the new Harvard of the House Plan should bear the impress of the best in Harvard's past. Dunster, Lowell, and now Eliot, Kirkland, Leverett, John Winthrop, and Adams are names rich in Harvard tradition and outstanding in Harvard progress. That the seven projected Houses should commemorate them for future generations of Harvard men is both an honor to the men who made famous their names and an augury for the happy outcome of the House Plan experiment...
...Corwin declares, one of the great points of college methods is to inoculate the student with the principles of self-education. This is an aim completely divorced from secondary school methods and it is necessary to impress this change upon first year college students if they are to respond to the intellectual stimulus that the college is supposed to offer...
...welcomed to services and organ recitals in the great domed Tabernacle (seating capacity 10,000) just behind the Temple. This auditorium, where the late great Soprano Adelina Patti remarked: "My voice is twice as large here," had undergone last week a vast refurbishing for a public pageant calculated to impress its audiences with the fact that Mormonism is a successful religion if ever there was one. Accompanying the pageant would be music from one of Mormondom's most cherished treasures- its mighty organ. In 1866 oxen began hauling the logs which formed its 32-foot diapason, its tiny flutinos...
Secretary Stimson is just two years older than Mahatma Gandhi, 61, and far more robust. Yet if Mr. Stimson had taken off all except a loin cloth when he landed at Southampton (TIME, Jan. 20, et seq.) and had walked barefoot the 80 miles to London, seeking thus to impress the World with his holy resolve to make the Naval Conference a success, Englishmen would have thought...
Against this tense background the Senate and the President enacted another unseemly wrangle. The issue between them was the threat, real or imaginary, of increased expenditures Congress might or might not authorize. Universal is the practice among Congressmen and Senators to introduce, chiefly to impress their constituents, measures authorizing huge expenditures which they know will never be passed, will never cost the U. S. a cent. As political gestures, some 10,400 bills have been so far offered in the House of which only a bare hundred or two will ever become...