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Reminiscent of war-time days when the entire small but studious aggregation of Harvard student was jammed into Lowell and Adams Houses, the seven College residences will boast scarcely any unconverted rooms. Under protest, 292 fall term enrollees living with 45 minutes travelling time from the Square will be commuting. In spite of these unwilling travelers and the fact that a Crimson colony has been established 32 miles from Cambridge in Fort Devens, rooming provisions are far better here than at most colleges throughout the country...
...textile manufacturer, packed Szyk off to Paris at 15 to study art, and - when Szyk paintings began getting smaller & smaller -sent him on to Asia Minor to find out how the Mohammedans did their miniatures. Since World War I (in which he served with the Russians), Szyk's studious talent for the tiny has made him tops in his field...
...uneasy task of assembling the show was slender, studious Curator John Walker of Washington's National Gallery. Walker and his helpers among top-drawer U.S. museum directors had no trouble picking 19th Century masters like Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins, but debated back & forth over such contemporary choices as Morris Grave's scratchy watercolor called Little Known Bird of the Inner Eye and Man Ray's crisp Admiration of the Ochestrelle for the Cinematograph...
Ananda had been a shy, studious boy who performed his royal duties with docility but without much interest. Most of his brief life had been lived abroad. His father (halfbrother of the late King Prajadhipok) had taken a medical degree at Harvard: Ananda had been born in Germany, educated in Switzerland. He became king under a regency in 1935 when Prajadhipok abdicated...
...Royal Empire Society, studious Malcolm MacDonald said: some day Great Britain could conceivably lose Canada as a member of the Empire, if she ever forces Canada to choose between the U.S. and Britain. If she wishes to avoid that loss, Britain had better recognize the toughness of Canadian-U.S. ties. Britain must "conduct her affairs so that Canada will never have to make the choice between . . . the United Kingdom and . . . the United States." Canada is under the influence of American thought and ideas, but she is still essentially British in instinct. Britain's job, said Malcolm MacDonald...