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...reader, even if he is a Harvard man interested, a little more than mildly but not intensely, in the history of a school which annually contributes about one-tenth of the Freshmen Class. Even the Latin School graduate, to whom much that is here will be familiar, will hardly summon up a remembrance of things past from his school-days, which now glow with all the romance natural to retrospection, for the book is learned and scholarly, as indeed it should be to justify its membership as Volume 25 in the Harvard Studies in Education. Yet all readers will find...
...quotations from Rufus Choate the Bar Association can summon up will have little enough effect upon the man holding the whip in the State House. To say that such a rank political trick endangers public confidence in the courts is too obvious a truth to emphasize. But, after all, what influence can such a trivial consideration have upon the Napoleonic mind of Mr. Curley? It is almost comic to hope that the integrity of the judiciary will mean anything to the man who has dragged the governorship of Massachusetts down to a level where almost no one has confidence...
...Apostolic King of Hungary," was so chagrined by George's good luck that he hastened to rebuke Austria for not having done the same for him, indicated that he is the solution to Europe's peace and hoped that Austria would hurry before it was obliged to summon him to rule "a heap of ruins...
...Hanna (Lee Tracy) has driven himself into the mayorality of a small New England town. Brilliant, forceful, a man of action and success he has also driven himself up the social scale to marriage with Hope Blake (Julie Haydon). Hope is madly in love with Hanna but he cannot summon a similar depth of affection for her. He is too absorbed in his own success, too completely egocentric to be capable of love even towards a girl whom he admires and respects as much as he does Hope. Kate Hastings and Sam Biddle, old journalist associates of Hanna realize that...
...Moscow last week came a significant change. News that Adolf Hitler is building war boats caused popular Defense Commissar Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov suddenly to summon Russia's best naval experts. They found "Klim," a cavalryman, eager to learn with fierce concentration in a few days all about their specialty...