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...Hall or Emerson D has become a grassy hillside; the seats are moss-covered rocks and the aisles, sparkling trout streams. As for the lecturer himself, he has taken on the glow of eternal youth. If this palls, another switch will change the hall into a grey and gloomy cavern, lined with stalactites and stalagmites; and so on--endless changes, endless variation. Thus can we put our old wine in new bottles, and completely deceive the luckless undergraduate with a couple of dozen "mazdas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EDUCATIONAL SORCERY | 11/22/1921 | See Source »

...verse in the number is no less varied. Mr. Clark's "In the Blue Sea Cavern," with its irregular metre and sparing use of rhyme, amply justifies its form by the fascination of its imagery. Mr. Putnam, in his sonnet, is at pains to ... "Make impassioned sense believe That memory improves my dull today." Mr. Sanger's "Aeroplanes" has a good swing. The "Grotesque" by Mr. Norris contains a good idea, marred at times by a somewhat perfunctory technique. The "Phantasy," by Mr. Willcox, though abounding in color and imagination, is breathless in its movement; it reminds...

Author: By W. C. Greene ., | Title: Current Advocate Uniformly Good | 4/14/1916 | See Source »

...huge folios which are "not to be handled without permission. "By way of relics, there is a brand new book carved out of a piece of wood taken from the Washington Elm. On the back is a picture of the old tree with its affluent branches, making a "cavern of cool shade." Below the roots of the tree is a pretty little scene representing a very wooden-looking soldier about to charge into the mouth of an innocent-looking cannon which protects a camp of wigwam-like tents. This book has a feature which many a freshman wishes could apply...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HARVARD LIBRARY. | 3/5/1883 | See Source »

Showed him a spacious cavern...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN PERU. | 4/10/1874 | See Source »

...glance upon the cavern. There...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN PERU. | 4/10/1874 | See Source »

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