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...being reminded of certain evils which still are found in Harvard education: evils which survive from that antiquated Harvard against which Sparks complained a century ago; evils which, though not Teutonic in genesis, have, nevertheless, a strong German flavor. For German A is the classic example of this fossil remnant of an unenlightened past...
...follows then that the book runs the gamut of the sad story of the explosion of the last remnant of the Holy Roman Empire. One marvels, in view of all the enormous difficulties with which Count Burián had to contend, how the Austrian Government (the Hungarian Government voted against war) ever dared to expose the tottering Empire to what was a known peril...
...prominent Boston, New York, or possibly Chicago family, and who continues to be damnably social for four years. And there is the high-school graduate who majors in Latin and spends most of his time in a quiet nook in the huge library. The socially correct element is the remnant of that Boston society of the last century that "sneezed whenever England took cold," although nowadays it is difficult to distinguish between the imitation and the real. The studious element speaks Americanese, is not ashamed of its local accent, and goes serious and unobtrusively about its business of obtaining...
...offer their congratulations on behalf of the remnant of the Army and Navy came General von Seeckt and Admiral Zenker. To them the President said...
...detailed and saddening points may be found is the recent article of Dr. Barbour in the Alumni Bulletin on "Biology at Harvard". This article, which contains considerable truth, would not lead one to think that Biology was being systematically built up here, bus rather that what remains is the remnant of a more prosperous period of twenty years ago. Are we to suppose that this condition is in no way related to a certain indifference of the present administration toward this department and its future...