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...peak of this pyramid of educational reforms President Lowell had long dreamed of a Society of Fellows, founded in the manner of Trinity, Cambridge. The plans for this group were outlined in the President's report for 1929-30 and in the form adopted on January 10, 1933 substantially followed that structure. Under this plan a group not exceeding 24 picked men, recently graduated, should be selected "for their promise of notable contribution to knowledge and thought." This group are known as Junior Prize Fellows and receive a yearly stipend of from $1250 to $1500 and free...
...Balancing Wallendas still bring sweat from the most jaded pores, are themselves visibly relieved at the conclusion of each performance. Year and a half ago their impossible, top-heavy, quivering pyramid on the high wire brought a scream of horror from 3,000 spectators in Europe when everything toppled. Balancing poles and a chair crashed down into the arena. Two Wallenda brothers caught the foundation wire neatly. Another Brother Wallenda caught it with one hand, caught his sister Dorothy, who was falling clear of any possible support, with his legs, squeezed her in a scissors till the ground crew brought...
...dreary nadir of materialism and mass-compulsion, an "unworld." Sample of cummingsesque: "unstructure with eagles. Despair. A on filthy floorless sitting perhaps drunken nonman. Confusion, timidly. ("See the" )whispers("nomads")Turkess . . . (stolid hugely faces poke from rags & bags: sullen squat drearily scratching lost ghosts. Men. Grunt nonmen. Their pyramid-of fear, surfaced with asquirm naked babies-does not move. None have any shoes but some are wearing instead baskets, i is smoking). Turk drops coinlesses, a machine spews quai-tickets. Now (baggageladen 2)3 comrades, through despair timidly through confusion through perhaps wearily and through (you cannot turn the wheels...
...generation of Harrimans, he began planning a big system in the Southwest, another system to connect his Kansas City Southern and D. & H. In 1927 the Interstate Commerce Commission turned thumbs down on his Southwestern plan, holding that K. C. S. was too small a base for a financial pyramid...
MACHEN (Arthur) The Shining Pyramid. One of 250 signed copies. Mint...