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...strength of his one-man expedition is doubled when he strikes up an acquaintanceship with Perken, a German-Danish adventurer of unsavory reputation who has spent his life among the savages of the interior, and who is planning a search in those parts for a French deserter, wanted by the authorities. Together Perken and Claude find the Royal Way, eventually discover a temple with valuable bas-reliefs, which they hack off, load on their bullock-carts. Then they begin the slow fight through the jungle back to safety and fortune. First their drivers desert. Then they fall into the hands...
...familiar with the old combinations before he can experiment with new ones, so the neophyte writer must have some acquaintance with what has been written in times past before engaging successfully in a work of originality. The English department very adequately provides opportunity for this detailed and scholarly acquaintanceship with the English classics, but it neglects and falls to foster as much as some students desire opportunities for original work in the field of composition. And indeed creative writing is one of the most important phases of literary research...
...News competition offers an exceptionally good field to those who wish to accomplish the threefold purpose of improving their writing, learning something of journalistic methods and the mechanics of the composition of a newspaper, and of widening their sphere of acquaintanceship among the faculty and student body: Candidates, however, will not be confined to the University in their work; frequent opportunity will arise for those so desiring to interview prominent figures in every walk of life from politics to the chorus. The alert man will receive credit for his scoops and special articles; he will penetrate the mystery hovering about...
...tenor Henrico Ferraro dodges his ranting manageress, Non-Stop Nora, to strike an acquaintanceship with a garrulous and none too scrupulous stranger. When the stranger buys wine with his money, Ferraro does not object. When the stranger takes the liberty of inviting himself into the same hotel room, Ferraro remains tolerant. But when the stranger is mistaken for the tenor, Ferraro is delighted...
Recently the college has indirectly suggested to the Advisers that they might cat more frequently with their advisee in order to become acquainted with them, a suggestion which may another year result in more than a nodding acquaintanceship between Adviser and Advisee. No mere suggestion, however, will ever dispense with the utter ignorance of courses and fields in which the majority of Advisers are content to bask. Not until the College insists that its advisers possess first of all a reasonably, complete knowledge of a t least the more popular fields of concentration, including a thorough appreciation of the possibilities...