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...that there is some merit in all the suggestions made, and a compromise would therefore be wise. The $40,000 per year could well allow both fellowships and prizes or perhaps a new undergraduate course or two. Certainly from this broad surface an interested and college-trained man could scrape a journalistic education far better than any one school could hope to offer. And he would come closer to fulfilling the ideals which Mrs. Nieman so nebulously outlined...
...interminable leases not so much because of size as because he felt and feels that human administrative capacity has grave limits. In 1915, appearing before a Congressional committee with a new bill aimed at monopoly, he quoted a German proverb: "Care is taken that the trees do not scrape the skies." Hundreds of times and in hundreds of ways he has expressed the same theme- a theme which marks the enormous difference between his liberal thinking and that, for instance, which is exemplified by the New Deal...
From what I can scrape up, Mr. Fathead doesn't get along too well with Prince Charming. In the morning I notice not many words pass between them. But then Mr. Fathead generally has a headache, and he seems to grow gruffer if he sees Prince Charming smiling and joking...
...good view of the disaster could be had from the couch across the room, and the space in front of the windows was cleared to accomodate the speedy influx of curious. One floor had the makings of a loud speaker rigged up so that even the most minute scrape could be detected...
...addition to Winthrop because of its appearance. The Kirkland House library is a charming example of how refreshing a frame building can be in this brick and stone University. But nevertheless, for Harvard to be forced to open a tiny unit like the Riverside hall, which will indeed barely scrape the surface of a really important habitation problem, is for the University to admit just how difficult that problem has become. Rearrangement of suites here and there has made available in all accomodations for about fifteen more men in the Houses--a few squirm through the bars while several hundred...