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...insincere when compared with the facts. He gave ?10, ($50) on his Welsh visit, for the unemployed. On the other hand, he dismissed hundreds of employees at Balmoral & Sandringham, and sold off everything on these properties which was salable, and with the money thus saved and raised, he bought priceless emeralds for Mrs. Simpson. These emeralds were the property of Queen Alexandra who left them to Princess Victoria, who in turn sold them to Garrard's of Bond Street, where King Edward bought them...
Largely by such means is Oxford University endowed. Most Americans think of Oxford, fattened by the benefactions of seven centuries, as a rich university. In fact Oxford is a loose bundle of colleges, many comfortably rich by 18th-Century standards, but despite the old paintings and priceless silver only modestly well off for the 20th. Each college houses its own members and turns over to the University a substantial part of its income in return for instruction and administration. Since 1925 about a third of the cost of running Oxford has had to be met by Parliament. In 1935 Oxford...
Recently renovated, the Oriental Galleries of the Fogg Museum have been opened again to the public. The new walls and display cases have been carefully chosen to show to the best advantage the priceless pieces which make the Fogg collection one of the finest in the country...
...arrive in the late afternoon. Long before 8 p. m. they had packed the main hall of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art to overflowing, were huddling on stairs, pressing into small rooms and remote galleries. Thousands sat in the shadow of suits of mail, under priceless canvases, close to marble sculptures. Thousands could not see the musicians' stand, yet all 15,000, one of the biggest indoor concert audiences ever assembled, applauded deafeningly when a slim, silver-haired old man walked on to begin conducting his twentieth series of eight free Saturday performances...
...thought the failure of undergraduates to rise and riot for more serious subjects than Richard, the expert in youth movements has struck to the core of the matter. For although other factors contribute to the Harvard man's seeming lack of interest in the world about him, the priceless heritage of freedom, for which the college for generations has carried the banner, is the undoing of serious-minded group agitation in the Yard...