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Despite all that Yale and her scholars can do to purify the English language, Harvard's pedantic phrases are ever with us. In fact they are so firmly entrenched at Cambridge that the Maintenance Department has just glorified a new exit in Sever Hall with the sign "Emergency Egress Only...
Taking their cut from the late Phineas T. Barnum, the Maintenance Department men have painted, in large white letters on the new exits from Sever Hall, "Emergency Egress Only." It was Barnum who, when he wanted to clear his famed American Museum, put a sign reading "To the Egress," over a door to the street, and the local citizenry, eager to see the new curiosity, soon found themselves out of the museum, leaving room for more to enter...
...State's vast system of Public Extension courses swings into action today with classes opening in Spanish and French. Both will be held in Sever Hall, and the Faculty, with a majority of Harvard men, also comprises educators from B. U. Tufts, Simmons, The Boston Museum of Fine Arts and Wellesley...
Evening courses for adults, giving instruction in conversational French and in Spanish, open tomorrow evening in Sever Hall, under the auspices of the Commission on Extension Courses...
...practice class in speaking French will be conducted by Louis J. A. Mercier, Associate Professor of French and Education. Wednesday and Fridays throughout the year Guillermo Rivers, Assistant Professor of Spanish, will give both the Spanish courses Tuesday and Friday evenings, in Sever Hall...