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...School, on Monday, in a simple ceremony at the Dean's office in Cambridge. Dr. Haus Luther, German ambassador to the United States, made the presentation of the degree which was conferred in June. Dean Pound, unable to attend the services at that time, received his parchment on Monday...
Walls and tables were choked with silver rings, pewter ash trays, fashion sketches, electrical equipment, straw hats, parchment lamp shades, gingham dresses. Demonstration classes in French, stenography, music appreciation, beauty culture, etiquette and Budgeting the Family Income chattered and squirmed in the centre of each floor. Behind exhibits and pupils lay the stories of some 75,000 men and wo- men stranded by Depression and floated off poverty, despair or boredom by a movement which has become one of the most significant phenomena of the past decade...
...When he talks about his work his deep-set blue eyes burn with an icy fire. He walks prodigious distances through the city streets. His most valued friends are the New York Public Library's somnolent pigeons. A life-long bachelor, Dr. Tesla is tall, spare, erect, parchment-skinned, beak-nosed. The mustache he once wore is gone...
...courses and tutorial work, for the scholar nucleus; a less-arduous life might well be planned for budding lawyers, doctors, businessmen, clubmen, football coaches, and future unemployed who constitute the solid background of Harvard life and finances. The term "two-degree system" would mean more than two varieties of parchment. Its general operation would liberate the picked scholar from the toils of the more elementary courses, from the stifling contacts of the inferior section meetings, and from the drag of ordinary students and probationers. He could pick his work from all the undergraduate and graduate courses, and enjoy as much...
...sees in Hitler's domination of Germany what Pitt saw in Napoleon's victory at Austerlitz. Says Mr. Simonds: "When Hitler captured Germany the time had similarly come to adjourn the sessions of the League of Nations and to fold away the Kellogg Pact and all similar parchment collections of words become meaningless in a contemporary world. His coming marked the transition from a post-war to a pre-war era." U. S. participation in the last war temporarily rescued the European balance of power, "therefore accomplished no more than to assist Europe in preparing...