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Whatever type of shaver you prefer, Derby has it, and the prices run from...
Between these last lines can be read the most remarkable career of any young Britisher of present times. The long-sighted rulers of the Empire prefer that a man should show some spark of rebellion, and very definitely of idealism, early. No spark, no spunk. No Character. Eden has Idealism-and Character-and in 1935 he became at 38 the youngest British Foreign Secretary in living memory...
...their immediate collegiate cohorts, or is to be a spectacle staged for the entertainment of the public? The Tournament of Roses officials are now being seriously criticized for nominating Duke to play the University of Southern California in the floral classic. Apparently some feel that the public would prefer Texas Christian University to the Blue Devils. This opinion has been crystallized in the words of certain Californian sports writers, one of whom, Bill Henry, of the Los Angeles Times, says, "The Trojans apparently don't give a whoop who or what the public wants . . . a good many people are going...
Said Dr. Edward S. Godfrey Jr., Commissioner of Health of New York State, who was elected 1939 president to succeed Abel Wolman: ". . . I would prefer a demonstration at the outset on a smaller scale than a State as a unit...
...unpleasant to undergraduate palates. Criticism, however, arises from a misapprehension of the Society's limitations and functions. Since Boston possesses the second most active theatre in America, the Harvard club finds itself unable to compete with commercial productions. It cannot cater successfully to undergraduates since they will invariably prefer the professional to the amateur "High Tor" when in search of an evening's entertainment. Hence, the Dramatic Society is in a totally different position from that of the Princeton Theatre Intime or the Amherst Masquers, the productions of which are highlights of the college social season, and which are consequently...