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...some sort of a business school is hardly justified in the present condition of the world." Professor Carver continued. "This I believe to be true for the majority of eastern universities, where emphasis on humanistic study and indifference to the conditions of a more or less remote outer world prevail. Without certain definite vocational aims a student at a college of this sort is quite useless in the present economical crisis...
Smart Comrade Michael Sklar manages the chain of Torgsin Stores throughout Russia in which above prices prevail. Last week the Soviet Government gave Sklar's stores a mighty boost. The Government decreed that no more packages containing food may enter Russia destined for private persons. Hereafter the tens of thousands of Russian emigres who have been mailing food to relatives and friends left behind in Russia will have just one recourse. They can pay a sum of money to a representative of Torgsin.* They can mail to anyone in Russia a receipt for their money called a "purchase order...
Nevertheless Mr. Wright's discontent with the superficial attitude towards theology which seems to prevail in the "Theological" School and at Harvard generally, is only too well justified. One would gather, from the theological lectures in History 57 that the religious formulations of our culture are based entirely on ignorance and an almost deliberate perversity. But to dwell on the intellectual absurdity of a theological doctrine is as irrelevant, to an understanding either of the doctrine itself or of religion in general, as ridicule of the linear distortions of El Greco or Diego Ribera would be to an understandings...
From the graves of our slain Shall thy valour prevail As we greet thee again Hail, Liberty! Hail...
...drinking scene, it is not entirely the actor's fault. Where Miss Crothers' pen strays from the high road of comedy into her beloved bypaths of sentimentality the play is decidedly less interesting and certainly less well acted. At several points there is the dread possibility that sentimentality may prevail, but by a miracle the demon is kept just at arm's length. Perhaps Emmie's accent works the trick...