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...University during the last two decades is so well known as to render futile any further attempt at review or glorification. Advancement in educational method such as the tutorial system and the plan of concentration and distribution has been matched by a vast increase in number of students and size of the University endowment. The brilliant and far-reaching conceptions of his predecessors have been shaped and welded by President Lowell into a working whole which maintains Harvard in its honored position at the forefront of American education. While the nation has been becoming a world power the University...
Although she can now see, she still has the habit of reaching out to touch visitors and passing her hands over objects to determine their size and position...
Critic Edward Alden Jewell of the New York Times: ". . . There are some big bells swinging?bells about the size that Mrs, Leslie Carter used to swing from, so long, so long ago, in Mr. Belasco's Heart of Maryland. . . . One adoring saint on the right is holding a violin . . . another is holding a baby that looks rather like another violin. . . . Although he calls them music and they were designed for the walls of a music room, there is nowhere visible a melodic line. . . . Let us say that it is a fairly good uprooted modern musical chord slurred and fumbled...
Archibald Robertson Graustein has always been a prodigious person. Son of a German-born Boston milkman, he graduated from grammar school at 11 and entered the Cambridge Latin School for Boys. As a tribute to his small size his new schoolmates promptly stuffed him into an ash can. At a slightly more advanced age he got through Harvard-in two years, with Phi Beta Kappa, the John Harvard Scholarship and, on his diploma, summa cum laude. A little after that he passed from the Harvard Law School to the prominent Boston law firm of Ropes, Gray, Boyden & Perkins. With...
Five years ago International Paper Co., more than twice the size of any other manufacturer of newsprint, was selling its paper at $75 per ton and making only a moderate profit. It was evident that the price of newsprint was going down (it is now about $55). Mr. Graustein was made president of International with instructions to save it from disaster. He closed its less efficient plants. Paper plants are usually on waterpower sites. International found itself with much unused waterpower. International added "Power" to its name, bought into the New England Power Association, became a seller of electricity...