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Before these fortunate young men move in, let us inspect their new abodes whilst we can still do so without infringing privacy, and the better to understand what we are seeing let us look also into Harvard's House Plan, which begins this month...
...unremittingly lectured at 80 many hours a week, and left largely to his own devices till time to spill these lectures back into the pages of an examination book, he will be sitting beside his tutor's hearth, both of them, the chances are, smoking if they care to, whilst discussing, reciting, quizzing, and being quizzed. This, as anyone who has triecrat knows, can mean a lively and often stimulating session of an hour's or even three or four hours' duration, a conversational give-and-take which stirs up the mind as few lecturers are able...
Most incongruous feature of opera-of all arts the most, wooden-is to watch ponderous paunchy bravos woo and buss great overstuffed divas whilst golden notes soar sonorously. Last week, when John Forsell, onetime (1909-10) baritone with Manhattan's Metropolitan, now chief of Stockholm's Royal Opera House, ordered all his bulky singers to reduce, U. S. operagoers were grateful to him for articulating what had been often thought but seldom said. Fat Swedish stars protested, saying that bulk aids musical beauty and that they sing best when they are well fed. But the order remained...
...aware your magazine (TIME, Aug. 4), is the first in America to give full credit to that wonderful runner, A. F. Newton of South Africa. Better late than never. Newton was born within a mile or two of Bedford, England, famous because it was whilst in jail in that town that John Bunyan wrote his Pilgrim's Progress. New to a left England when a youth of 15 to study and take up farming in Rhodesia, South Africa, and as stated never took up running seriously until near 40 years old, yet at 44 and 45 he had smashed...
...peep at a few communist activities as officially practiced in these United States and we find among them: Army, Navy, Police, Prisons, Asylums, Reformatories, Public Schools, Libraries, Museums, Public Parks. All these activities are communistic because every man, woman and child pays directly or indirectly for their maintenance, whilst the benefits accruing from them are for the nation at large. Perhaps the finest example of official communism is our "Public Roads." Would anyone wish to go back to the old Toll Roads? Not much, I think. Communism is here to stay. It was taught by Jesus and practiced...