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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Having bought this brilliant and tender painting, Sir Joseph assured its English owners and authorities of the government that he would leave his possession in England for a fairly long period at least before taking it to the U. S. Lady Desborough, who had inherited the canvas indirectly from the third Earl Cowper who in turn had bought it from the Niccolini Palace in Florence 150 years ago, had dealt with Sir Joseph before. In 1913 she sold him the "small Cowper Madonna," also a Raphael, which now hangs in the Widener collection at Philadelphia...
Students of the period will find the book a stimulating biography of the man who was the lone break in the chain of Stuart monarchy from Elizabeth to William of Orange. Those less familiar with the complex seventeenth century will enjoy contact with a singular personality...
Such progress has been inevitable. Education has never been supplied freely to everyone: it is only the requirements that have differed. And after a period which is comparatively remarkable short, in America the transition has almost been completed from the aristocratic aristocracy of birth to the democratic aristocracy of brain...
They will hear, no doubt, about the Reading Period and the other strides which Harvard is making in the educational world; they will hear, possibly, of the situation of the stadium question. But above all they will carry away with them the feeling that Harvard as a university is still alive as it was in their undergraduate years. President Lowell and other speakers are there, the baseball team and the band will play, the Glee Club will sign, and if the weather stays fine, the success of the conference should be assured...
Further, it may be true that these congenital defectives are doomed because their mothers suffered emotional or physical stress during the antenatal period. It must be allowed as a hypothesis, because any hypothesis is allowable when the facts are as yet unknown. But unless the number of endocrinal defectives (and consequently of criminals) is enormously large, it is not extremely plausible . Few mothers escape grave occasion for worry, and most of them are obliged to perform rather laborious tasks during the critical period. There has been a marked advance in this respect within recent years, still, ideal conditions are anything...