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Statthalters. One relic of the old Empire was definitely ended: the individual rights of German States. A four-pointed bill turned Germany last week from a loose confederation under Prussian domination to one of the most highly centralized governments in the world. It provided...
...basis of three, many men who received degrees magan cum iaude have been denied membership, while some of those admitted as undergraduates failed to measure up under the severe test of independent initiative and originality offered by tutorial work and honors theses. Such a system is a relic of the days when courses offered the only field in which the application of intellect and effort could be measured. The University recognized the existence of a better test years ago, and accordingly shifted the requirements for honor degrees to conspicuous achievement in Divisional examinations and honors theses. Phi Beta Kappa, with...
...dreams of a Harvard freshman. During the War he served with distinction as an aviator in France, Macedonia. Morocco, where he had time to paint a number of most effective landscapes. He was decorated with the Legion of Honor, but, a sincere Royalist, he scorns the boutonniere as a relic of the Corsican upstart Napoleon. Shortly after the War he married Delfina Edwards-Bello, beautiful daughter of a wealthy Argentine. Their town house in Paris was the former studio of the late great Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, built on the site of an ancient convent, which Artist Boutet de Monvel...
...side, sings songs which are relayed endlessly by the other members of the cast, and in the end marries the princess, as dukes and dowager queens drop away in dead faints. Maurice is a tailor this time and the princess, Jeanette MacDonald, is only a relic French one. The plot is the usual one and the actor is the same, with the varnish and the pronunciation only slightly marred by rough American usage...
...neat little circulars advises all members about identification cards, how to make complaints about the food, how much the four guest rooms cost, and how all-pervasive are the parietal rules, which the Faculty has been meditating without result for the last six months. The swimming pool, a relic of Gold Coast days, and Adams' pride, has been modernized, and is available throughout the College year. Weekly "long table" dinners on Thursdays provide a steady stream of speakers, who have been appreciated. In contrast to the practice at certain less enterprising Houses, the Associates, a goodly list, are invited...