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...there was one amongst this happy group who, most regrettably, felt that he had work to do. He sat, part of each day, in a high studded gilt room staring at the ceiling through grey, opaque eyes; smoking long, thin Turkish cigarettes. Some men called him the Sphynx; he called himself Napoleon. It was shortly after he had announced that the Empire meant peace that France drifted into the Crimean War out of whose dreary twilight the world hears only one sweet note, a Nightingale's. Today at 12, Professor Langer will lecture in Harvard 6 upon how the Crimean...
...generations before, men of England had hung on and muddled through. That is one of the finest traditions, but there are countless others. For centuries "the brethren in their sorrows overseas" have stood, glass in hand, in barren mess rooms looking at a homely portrait on the wall. One amongst them has said in a quiet hushed tone, "Gentlemen, the Queen", and, with a clicking of heels, the toast has been drunk. After this the little glass shanks of the goblets are flicked apart and they are hurled into the fireplace. This is a very expensive tradition, but a most...
...Poetry Room in Widener was established in the hope that it might develop an interest in poetry amongst the undergraduates. There has long been a need at Harvard for something that will give a cultural background such as no course can provide. Only in so far as it can fulfill this purpose may the existence of a poetry room be justified...
...activities, including schools and institutions, in which the said health building methods are taught; to establish scholarships and foundations and other means of support for advocates of the said health building methods ... to maintain sanitariums and other institu tions . . . gymnasiums and camps and other outdoor recreational facilities . . . to promote amongst all classes of people the knowledge of right living and health ful living and the care of their bodies, which are essential to right living and good citizenship . . . etc. etc. There shall be no discrimination as to age, race, nationality, sex, creed or color of the beneficiaries of such purposes...
...Vagabond has noticed an alarming symptom cropping out every now and again amongst the students. It is particularly bad at this time of year. He knows the old gag of Tennyson's about "In the Spring" and all the awful things that happen then, but did not the same old rhymster say that there was no joy but calm. He did. And the two are not compatible. The Vagabond has always been a batchelor for woman would restrict the carefree, wandering life such as his. He has patiently borne with the feministic foibles of his followings for he understands that...