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...such times as these. There is an obligation resting upon us is do as a body, much more this year than we did last year toward helping some of the thousands among our fellow citizens who are constantly facing privations. In making this urgent general appeal, we do not overlook the fact that some Harvard officers have already given generously, perhaps as generously as they should, this year...
What Reporter Knickerbocker stated, and what his editors seemed to overlook, is that the Rohrbach experiment so far "is only a millennium on paper." Nor is the Rohrbach principle entirely new. Dr. Rohrbach, a builder most famed for his seaplanes (Rohrbach "Rostra." Rohrbach "Romar") has been working on the revolving-wing theory with infinite care for more than two years but has not progressed beyond preliminary wind-tunnel tests...
...last few pages are hurried, if Miss Bentley permits David to utter lengthy banalities on his family history, one must overlook these, and forgive her. The remainder of the task is well done. The general effect of the book is to send one scurrying to his own genealogy. Perhaps that is all that one should require of any Saga...
...simplicity of the story, the fact that its elements have been used in the cinema a thousand times before, make it easy to overlook the fact that Cynara is a most unusual picture. This is not because it possesses the surface excellences-sensitive direction, by King Vidor, and more than competent acting-with which shrewd old Samuel Goldwyn quite often equips his productions. It is because Cynara presents, with sombre thoughtfulness, a situation which the cinema almost always handles blatantly ; and because the values which it involves, while not particularly subtle, are wholly unlike those which U. S. cinema audiences...
...because the men are often personally incongenial. Such a difficulty may be overcome, however, if men can be shown the definite advantages which such periodic meetings offer them. By conversation with colleagues a student can be brought into contact with many branches of his subject that he would otherwise overlook. As different phases of a subject are brought out in such meetings, so should be displayed various methods of approach to those phases. The whole effect of even a superficial collaboration of this kind should be a unifying one, simultaneously adding to and coordinating one's fields of thought...