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...Seventeen companions in crime read my copy, including the famous Dr. Cook of North Pole fame, the Yellow Kid, whose mysterious ways gained him millions, S. E. J. Cox of oil world fame and Big Tim Murphy liked to read...
...Business, and Medical Schools than of the undergraduate department expressed interest in the proposition, the percentage of the departments being 9.5 per cent for the College, 17 per cent for the Law School, 25.5 per cent for the Business School, and 18 per cent for the Medical School. Seventeen per cent of the Faculty who were questioned, stated that they would use the course...
...Significance. You can, if you like, read Earl Tinker as Pen rod grown up. Laurence Ogle might be Willie Baxter, twice Seventeen. Or you can regard The Plutocrat as simply a new Tarkington vehicle full of up-to-date types, sent out parading to show people how they look. The balloon tires of burlesque protect anyone it runs over from being injured. Mme. Momoro is the chauffeuse, adroit aloof, intelligent, guiding the satire until it is time for her to step out of it a human being like the rest. Mr. Tarkington has written books of more uniform merit...
...Harvard University the CRIMSON extends to President Lowell its heartiest congratulations and good wishes on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. The CRIMSON further ventures to hope that the University may be blessed with his guiding hand and courageous, experienced leadership for many years to come, that the seventeen years of his administration may be extended at least to twenty...
Even the most cursory examination of his achievements during these seventeen years reveals the extent to which President Lowell has added to and extended the structure that is Harvard. In many ways the years from 1909 to the present have been as critical and as formative as the forty preceding during which President Eliot labored so fruitfully. The questions of admission requirements, of the curriculum, of the graduate schools, and of the material facilities of the University have all been pressing. They have been met in a farsighted, broad-visioned manner by Mr. Lowell...