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...services. I have had the good fortune to be connected with Harvard during almost the entire period of President Lowell's administration,--first as a student and later as a member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Thus, I have had the opportunity of seeing his plans unfold and have witnessed the revolution which has taken place in the attitude of the student body towards scholarship. The problem we face today is how best adapt the great heritage of the past to the changing times and the uncertain future ahead. A university is primarily a group of creative scholars...
Whenever trouble brewed in ancient Rome, messengers sped south to the Cumaean Rock, a many-chambered volcanic promontory twelve miles west of Naples. Therein, "hidden far from sight within her sanctuary dark and drear, dwelt the dread Sibyl, whom the Delian seer inspired with soul and wisdom to unfold the things to come"* Complaisant with the Romans' plea the Sibyl would shuffle inscribed leaves, deal them upon her grotto floor, to be construed there by her votaries...
...office Mr. Churchill was famed for "raiding" every fund he could lay his hands on. Mr. Snowden has just raided the British "dollar fund" in Manhattan for $165,000,000 to balance his budget. "I could hardly believe my ears," drawled Mr. Churchill, "when I heard the Chancellor . . . unfold a long series of ... expedients I had devised and practiced...
...pantomime, and he does not want applause that is bought by gazing at a cardboard balcony and exercising a wheezy tenor, or archly boop-boop-a-doopering. The master comedian is clearly of the opinion that motion pictures, like peacocks, are fine when they silently unfold their tails, but when they attempt to speak it's a very different matter...
...Laura Merrick (Mary Boland) had had an affair with some sort of artist in her youth, was titillated when, years later, she was to entertain in her home the one she believed to have been her lover for an afternoon-Max Lawrence (Warren William). Vinegar Tree then proceeds to unfold some uncommonly good comedy for three acts, during which the artist finds himself entangled by Miss Boland and her younger sister and her virginal daughter. After the younger sister and the artist have gone into the garden together in Act III and the daughter is safely in the arms...