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...speak Italian and Spanish, so that we were enabled to get nearer the people and learn their inner sentiments...
...extreme Southeast corner of New Hampshire, 50 mi. north of Boston, is the town of Exeter, where John Phillips in 1781 founded Phillips Exeter Academy. Twenty-five miles nearer Boston is Andover, where John's nephew. Samuel, founded Phillips Academy one year earlier. (His school later became "Phillips Academy at Andover" to distinguish it from his uncle's school at Exeter.) Exeter and Andover have flourished mightily, until today they are the twin giants of prep schools in size and in prestige. Other schools are certainly more fashionable, possibly more potent scholastically, improbably more prolific in first-string...
Contrary to the first stories in the metropolitan papers last evening stating that the Harvard Library had suffered losses amounting to $40,000, the amount is nearer $8,000, according to A. C. Potter '89, Librarian...
...Last year I predicted that television would come within the next five years. The result of our work in the past six months has brought the goal some years nearer. Commercial television is just around the corner. It will be the next great industrial development...
...abroad to protect himself. He has always invested the greatest portion of his wealth in Spanish interests for the sake of developing his own country. . . . It is more accurate to say that if His Majesty will not actually be pinched by monetary needs at any rate he will be nearer the pinching line than the luxury line and will have to watch his expenses closely...