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...following is a list of the midyear examinations in January, with the time and place of their occurrence. Changes in time or place or both have been made since the last printing of the examination schedule in the following courses: Celtic 3, English 3a, English 72, History 10b. The Crimson assumes no responsibility for the accuracy of the schedule, which is posted in University Hall. All examinations begin at 9.15 o'clock unless otherwise specified, and are three hours in length. The list of examinations in February will follow shortly. THURSDAY, JANUARY 21 (IX) Celtic 3 hf Emerson 211 Chinese...
Whenever he wins a fight, Welterweight Jimmy ("Baby Face") McLarnin turns a handspring in his corner of the ring before he makes the conventional gesture of clasping his hands and shaking them over his head. The trick is significant; it seems to be the expression of Celtic characteristics which have endeared him to a public which likes its pugilists Irish. Billy ("Fargo Express") Petrolle is another kind of fighter. Three years older than McLarnin-26-his face is scarred and flattened by the beatings he has received in the course of a long and intermittently successful career. When they were...
...writer of the editorial "Welsh Rarebit" in yesterday's CRIMSON seems to be under the impression that the Celtic culture and languages are dead, for he says: "A purely academic and scholastic survival of dialects and traditions is worth little." I can not speak from personal experience as to the Gaelic of the Scottish Highlands but I do know that Welsh is very much alive. I know two proofs of this: first, there is a Welsh newspaper the "Baner ar Amseran Cymon" of which I have a copy and, second, the children talk Welsh. As long as the children talk...
...Editor's Note: The editorial did not mean to imply that the Celtic culture is dead. Its point was that if, as the press report suggested, the University of Inverness was to be founded mainly to preserve a dying language, it would serve no valuable function. It was from this point of view that the sentence quoted above was written...
...pretty constant, as, for example, the many gifts from John B. Stetson, Jr. '06, for Portuguese history and literature, (including the great Palha library); Professor Paul J. Sachs '00, for books in fine arts; Professor James R. Jewett '82, for Arabic literature; Professor Fred N. Robinson '90, for Celtic books; Augustin H. Parker '97, for original drawings by Walter Crane; and another graduate, who prefers to hide in modest anonymity, almost countless treasures in English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, all in memory of Lionel de Jersey Harvard...