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...superlatives do seem to be some-what more numerous than they would have been if President Eliot or President Lowell had issued the statements, but the circular is really not so immodest after all. It includes one "probably" and one "perhaps," and says nothing at all about the Bussey Institute, the graduate school of arts and sciences, the glass flowers, the recent gratifying football experience with Yale, and the permanent rustication of a young man who wafted a specimen of citrus fruit at Rudy. If this appeal does not make graduates loosen up, they have no sense of relative values...
...realm of landscape, there are the sunny restful Italian scenes of Jan Both and Nicholas Berchem. Some-what more Dutch in character are the sweeping compositions of Jan van Goyen and Solomon and Jacob Ruisdael, the gloomy moonlight view of Aart van der Neer, the wind-swept crags of Everdingen, and the quiet seas of William van der Velde. The genre painters are well represented by the rollicking drawings of Adrian van Ostade and Jan Steen, and the somewhat more restrained compositions of Nicholas Maes and Cornelius Dusart. Painters of animals are illustrated by brilliant little sketches of Paul Potter...
...figure would be larger, and, under normal business conditions, a five-month supply. On the other hand, copper consumers have very small inventories and when buying starts it will be on a big scale. Although the reduced price means much smaller earnings for copper producers, this is foreseen, is some-what balanced by the fact that greater copper sales will stimulate general business conditions. The copper producers agreed, in effect, on one big price cut to do immediate good rather than a series of small cuts which might produce less good than haggling, uncertainty...
...figure and features were singularly delicate but it was her color that struck me most. ... It seemed a some-what dim white or pale grey. . . . It was not white, but alabastrian, semipellucid, showing an underlying rose colour. . . . in shadow . . . rosy purple to dim blue. The eyes . . . flamelike . . . a tender red. The hair . . . slate . . . sometimes intensely black . . . sometimes white as a noonday cloud...
Golfer, musician, horseman, photographer, Conservative Sir Douglas has been symbolic of his Conservative company. Made a baronet in 1921, he has worked strenuously in both the Manhattan and London offices, has pushed the European development rapidly. Last week he some-what altered his policy of reticence, told stockholders more than the earnings, which were...