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Harvard has rolled dizzily in Harkness millions. Harvard has watched some hundred thousands in Krueger and Toll swirl gently into a financial maelstrom. But through New Era and New Deal, oblivious to both, fingers of steel have clasped the purse-strings of Lehman Hall. To the undergraduate, Arthur L. Endicott has been the symbol of an impersonal and mechanical bureaucracy, a vague object for resentment about high room rents, and monotonous food, and broken fire doors. To those who know him by sight, the tall, straight-backed figure, with solemn expression, steely-gray hair, and amazing height of starched white...
...made the evening. Instead of the usual 80 players there were 104 in the pit. No music is more difficult. The strings in places are divided into 20 parts. 'Cellos must behave like violins. The tympanist does sleight of hand. Dis sonances pile on dissonances, savagely conflict and swirl away into new combinations. Stage honors went not to any performer but to Donald M. Oenslager, who made a highly effective setting out of castle walls, a great flight of steps and two cypress trees standing against an Oriental...
...crowd with the aid of some of the 450 special police. Out of the car got a Roman Catholic priest. He was soon lost until someone screeched "Here's Father Coughlin" and catapulted Detroit's famed radio demagog through a door. Old Uncle Henry followed in the swirl but onetime Senator Robert Owen, tall and feeble, became terrified. "Please get me out of this" cried...
...realism of mood and swirl of action The First World War cannot be compared in scope or variety with the great ten-volume Photographic History of the Civil War issued in 1911 by Review of Reviews Co. That work still stands as an unchallenged monument to War Photographer Matthew Brady and his aides who also recorded the four-year struggle on some 7,000 wet plates that had to be developed five minutes after exposure. World War cameramen with their improved equipment remain nameless heroes. From the bottom of their portfolios were lifted such blood-curdling pictures as went into...
Devotees who have visited the warm musty sanctum on Baker Street, who have seen thin, ascetic fingers cure Quietly around an hypodermic who hart watched a spare figure draped unhand somely in tweed and mufflers despots in the swirl of a London fog, in short all who know Hoimes as Doyle conceived him, will turn from this latest atrocity with grim sentiments...