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...example in the appointment of an acting president, heard recently because of the Corporation's seeming inability to fix upon a new head, received short shrift in semi-official quarters yesterday. President Lowell, it is believed, will continue in office until his successor is appointed, even if that should prolong his term far into next year. His resignation, tendered last November, takes effect when his successor is appointed and ready to assume his duties, preferably at the end of this year...
Oxford's pacifism was scarcely more lamentable to many a proud Old Oxonian than a fact reported by The Spectator: "Jackets with cuffs and elbows strengthened with leather to prolong life are very common in the streets...
...tutorial system should offer an unlimited opportunity to the student to get at the meat of a subject with as little hampering as possible, but it requires, and for that reason develops, maturity and interest. At present it is badly cramped by course requirements. These courses tend to prolong an immature and perfunctory attitude and seem to me thoroughly at odds with the spirit of tutorial work. A good deal of what is wrong and inadequate with the tutorial system is due to the fact that it is regarded as being merely an afterthought and distinctly secondary to the requirement...
...feel that the most serious handicap which the tutorial system has to work against is the domination of a student's mind and attitude by the course system and the high school point of view which it seems to prolong...
...situation and ended the picture in three minutes. The origin of his power is given as his eyes ("hypnotism, nothing more") and Edmund Lowe's affable face works hard trying to look mystical. Tear-gas is used to make his eyes impotent and give Villain Lugosi a chance to prolong the picture. Resurrected from the bottom of the Nile. Lowe out-eyes Lugosi and the death-ray explodes, leaving civilization untoasted...