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...Cambridge the University has shrunk to less than one-third of its former membership. Of the total enrolment in military and naval service, it has been estimated that up to September 30, 474 men have been killed, 672 wounded, and 104 are prisoners or missing. The University begins the year with a considerable financial deficit, which is expected by the end of this year to amount to $60,000. Some 1,500 licensed lodgings in Cambridge are untenanted, and most of the landlords are ruined. Yet both there and at Oxford, the university is still open...
...merely entertaining or amusing, but stimulative of thought about certain phases of American life--stimulative because conceived in thought and developed by close thinking. Again, too, we face the unconventional, for in 'The Great Divide' Mr. Moody handles situations from which our stage even a decade ago would have shrunk in timid trembling, and in the 'Faith Healer' he enters the field of religious belief, a subject, till within something like a decade, thoroughly taboo for our drama...
...body shrunk to the Elfin size...