Word: celtic
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...original Rotarian and even bridles when admirers say "there must have been something divine in the origin of Rotary." Its statements are dignified nowadays and Rotarians will smile indulgently if they read in the June American Mercury that St. Patrick has been claimed as "first real Kiwanian of the Celtic race."* Rotary no longer needs imaginary prestige. It has its own. Such men as Commander Francesco de Pinedo have accepted honorary Rotaryhood. Into the teeth of Novelist Sinclair Lewis' castigations Rotary now can fling George Bernard Shaw's retort: "Any sort of an organization is better than sitting...
...Messer Marco Polo was drawn to the Old Man of the Mountains by white magic, for example, will have difficulty distinguishing between florid fantasy and sincere interpretation when it is told how Saul overcame the snuffling, pad-padding, loathsome shapes of evil conjured by Bar-jesus of Paphps. The Celtic love of melodramatizing the supernatural, in sheer romance a virtue but here a weakness, crops out often enough to mar the fine simplicity with which more familiar miracles are treated-Saul's epileptic vision in a sandstorm on the Damascus road; making the cripple of Lystra leap...
...start of the twelfth however, Sharkey darted from his corner, shot his right fist to McTigue's jaw with spectacular results. A fountain of blood spurted from the Irishman's mouth continued to spurt. Both fighters were soon smeared from head to heel with Celtic gore. Spectators, bloodthirsty of nature, were visibly relieved when Referee McPartland stopped the fight, giving Sharkey credit for a technical knockout...
Other new courses include the History of the Renaissance and Modern Art by Dean George 'H. Edgell '09, the Romantic Movement in English Literature and the Influence of Celtic Romance on English Literature by Professor T. P. Cross '10 of the University of Chicago; the History of the English Language in America by Professor Henry Alexander of Queen's University, Canada, the History of the Novel in France by Professor Albert Schinz of Smith College; International Relations and Government by Professor A. N. Holcombe '06; the History of Political Theory by Professor C. H. McHwain '03; American Colonial History...
...Astron. Lab. 2b Tues. at 11 Astron. Lab. BIOLOGY A Tues. at 10 Geol. Lect. Rm. BOTANY 1 Tues. at 10 Nash Lect. Rm. 6a Mon. at 1 Fariow Herb. 12 Tues. at 11 Bussey Inst. 14 Tues. at 9 Univ. Mus. 27 16 Mon. at 1 Farlow Herbarium CELTIC 2 Tues. at 9 Sever 14 CHEMISTRY 3b Mon. at 11 Boylston 9 4 Mon. at 2 Coolidge Lab. 7 Tues. at 12 Boylston 9 8 Tues. at 11 Boylston 9 9 Mon. at 3 Coolidge Lab 15 Mon. at 9 Boylston 9 17 Mon. at 9 Coolidge Lect...