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Discovery of this rare and important specimen, which has an unusually wide head, was made in Wyeming in 1930 by Erich M. Schlaikjer on field research for the museum, but has not been made public until...
...Personality ("An International Quarterly for Psychodiagnostics and Allied Studies'') published this week, he reproduces twelve lines of bold, graceful, rapidly written script, with this comment: "It is out of the question that ten years ago any expert would have admitted the possibility . . . that parts of this specimen could have been written by different persons...
...remodel English 1 on the lines of the tremendously popular courses in Chaucer at Yale and Princeton. At present there is no course at Harvard devoted to the study of one of the greatest and most neglected figures in English literature as a poet rather than as a specimen of philology and scholarship...
...Lytton Strachey will have a gay time humanizing the pre-1929 financiers to less than lifesize. Such a student of the period will list in his bibliography this lurid sketch of Author Winkler's on the Stillman family and what was once their National City Bank. A garish specimen of the oleographic school of portraiture, The First Billion, in spite of its crude perspective and uncertain line, has enough factual force to make a simple reader's flesh creep. At the other extreme from eulogy, it contains about as little of the blood of human likeness. Author Winkler...
...also serve who only stand and wane. Your hilarious telegram is a fine specimen of "Record" wit. We adults feel that football is a product of the newer decadence. However we will play you in the Harvard Stadium at 2 P.M., on Saturday. "Lampoon." --The Yale News...