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...have a fine new chapel. Why? Because there is not enough religious interest in Harvard to warrant the erection of anything larger. Cornell would not want a new chapel--Sage is beautiful and inspiring. But even in this school where the word religion borders very closely to the realm of obsolescence attendance at churches on the hill and down town is not discouraging. --Cornell...
...realm of landscape, there are the sunny restful Italian scenes of Jan Both and Nicholas Berchem. Some-what more Dutch in character are the sweeping compositions of Jan van Goyen and Solomon and Jacob Ruisdael, the gloomy moonlight view of Aart van der Neer, the wind-swept crags of Everdingen, and the quiet seas of William van der Velde. The genre painters are well represented by the rollicking drawings of Adrian van Ostade and Jan Steen, and the somewhat more restrained compositions of Nicholas Maes and Cornelius Dusart. Painters of animals are illustrated by brilliant little sketches of Paul Potter...
Such measures are precisely the Mosley program: The New Party will march to the polls demanding that a limited dictatorship or "Cabinet of Five" be set up with extraordinary powers in the economic and social realm. In foreign policy and traditional "affairs of state" (in the Victorian sense) the British Cabinet would remain in status...
...curtain the play gives every evidence of being a sophisticated comedy of the English drawing-room genre, but before long it may be seen that the author's grasp has caught up with his reach and the play regrettably wanders far a field into the less stimulating realm of force. The perennial vivacity of Helen Hayes does much to propel a vehicle that in spots lacks lubrication, and Henry Stephenson gives the wheels of comedy many a timely flick of the finger...
...People, Herbert Clark Hoover still has unbounded faith in himself and the ultimate justification of his own policies and methods. What gives him courage and turns his face hopefully toward the future is the certain knowledge that better economic times will bring him better political times. Well within the realm of possibility ?in fact most Republicans count on it? is a mighty upturn toward prosperity which will blot out the President's misfortunes and missteps of 1930-31 and restore him, sobered from his bout with adversity, to the peaks of popularity in time for the 1932 election...