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Died. Mrs. Henrietta King, 93, owner of the world's largest ranch (1,280,000 acres, near Kingsville, Tex.); in Kingsville. Her home on the ranch, the finest in the Southwest, contains tapestries, woven from her own designs, depicting the history of Texas and the cattle ranges...
...author has taken verbal photographs of the professors of law in their unguarded moments. Legal rigamarole and trite phrases of the classroom have been woven into a lifelike depiction of the Law School in grotesque...
...would never think, to look at its present neglect, that there is more noble history woven about Holden Chapel than about any other Harvard building. For the first hundred years after the college was founded there was no chapel. Then, in 1741, Mrs. Jane Holden of London made a gift of four hundred pounds "to build a Chapple for the Use of ye College...
...last Report, President Lowell wrote: "There is now intention of gradually substituting tutorial work for courses of instruction.... They must by experience be woven together into one fabric, not inharmonious but each dependent for its best results upon the other." Quite so; but the matter is that there can be no harmonious development as long as the present over-emphasis on grades is maintained. it is an iron band which ruthlessly stunts the growth of the tutorial system. There are not two strong and harmonious systems; there is in fact only one, and that one crushes by its dead weight...
...Starving in England at the same time is Lord Menford. To frighten off the wolf, Lord Menford sells to this heiress his estate, "catches a bun" the next night and is delivered to his ancient gates. Thereupon they are marooned together for two nights and a day. Woven through this inconsequential thesis is a variety of vigorous by-play and device. Miss Talmadge is excellent as usual and is aided immensely in her pantomime by the brilliant support supplied by Ronald Colman. Director Sidney Franklin has done a neatly knit and thoroughly ingenious...