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When sterling Queen Mary, the Queen Mother, speaks affectionately of "Algie," Her Majesty refers to the Earl of Athlone, her youngest brother. He is so keen a soldier that he not only won the D. S. O. in Africa in 1901 but begged off from becoming Governor General of Canada in 1914 to join the British Army in France. Last week Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King revealed that when George VI toured the Dominion last year, King & King talked over who would make a suitable successor for Canada's then Governor General, Baron Tweedsmuir, and agreed...
...depend upon us for existence. He saw things as they were, alone, and then proceeded to reapply these principles of order to them on his canvases. And this entire process went on very naturally within him as he painted; if he was a madman he was a very keen-sighted and philosophic madman. Such a theory about Van Gogh may not be acceptable but it is simply offered as a suggestion to keep in mind while viewing his paintings...
...Clay, Charley Brackett, Jack Schwede, and Burgey Ayres are the main reasons for current optimism concerning the mound staff, and the tough Southern trip should provide plenty of work for them. Northern nines that have no opportunity for outside work until they head southward for vacation trips find keen competition in the collegiate grapefruit circles there...
Competition for all positions is exceedingly keen, and though it is impossible to pick an actual team, yet Bill Barnes seems slated for first, either Bart Harvey or Alan Read for second, and Art Scully at short. Either George Harding or Bill Harrison will cover third...
Thus the faculty committees which struggle with the Herculean task of giving a Harvard education a common content should keep a keen eye on the more or less sweeping reform plans in force at Chicago, St. John's, Columbia, and North Carolina. They should draw their lesson from the experiences of these pioneers, who have spared Harvard the costs of hit-or-miss experimenting. They should not shrink back from the pains of a thorough cure, if they feel that eventually it would put the patient back on his feet. For liberal education has passed beyond the stage where occasional...