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...past three months offer some basis for analyzing what may be the trends of future development. The houses so far naturally fail to fulfill the sweeping change of educational methods predicted beforehand, and even now somewhat naively visualized by the press and by visitors staggered by the physical splendor of the buildings. None but the most excitable, however, expected radical changes in the mental outlook of men who were to reside in the first two units. Nevertheless there has been a growth of ennui among those previously interested in the House Plan, and as the interest has waned, the sharpness...
...groped for the right word, would not be happy till he got it. Fuess makes no idol of Webster, but his biography will honor Webster's memory. "Even those biographers who have taken a malicious joy in exposing the blemishes on his character have been overawed by his splendor. In all American history there has been no statesman who, in manner and bearing, appeared so noble." Of good New England stock (his father fought in the Continental Army), Daniel Webster was born (1782) in Franklin, N. H., died 70 years later on his Massachusetts farm. Between those dates...
Gradually yielding its splendor and dignity of archaic. Romanesque architecture to the picks of Kenneth John Conant '15, associate professor of Architecture and a corps of student assistants, the Abbey of Cluny, once the center of Middle Age Monasticism in historic Burgundy reveals again its age-old beauty...
Conant's report to the Medieval Academy of America, which institute is sponsoring the work, two paragraphs in particular depict the extent of this historic splendor...
Significance. The Princes and the Untouchables (not one of whom uttered a word to the Conference last week) may be expected to side with His Majesty's Government no matter what happens; the Princes because they are dependent on British might to maintain their position of feudal splendor in the face of democratic trends; the Untouchables because, although championed by St. Gandhi, they still feel that India's democratic trend has not gone far enough to protect them from oppression by the higher castes, they look to Britain for whatever protection they are likely to receive...