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...March he will return to the U. S., to be discharged from the service. Now 35, shrewd, reticent, he will be adopted by a wealthy man in Florida. Soon to be published is his book The White King. From Haiti he will bring with him cinema films of Voodoo cere monies, wild tribal dances, mystic sexual rites which his friends fear no censor will pass...
...opiate. Where Beethoven, the Master, died amidst reverence in a thunderstorm, Schubert, the unknown, passed away in ignominy. It is said that they met on one occasion when Schubert, struggling against shyness, made bold to visit the leonine Beethoven. Beethoven, as was his custom, received all visitors with overwhelming cere mony. Schubert was awed by the torrential welcome and when Beethoven, on glancing over some variations dedicated to him by the tim id visitor, appeared to be amazed by what he saw, the panic-stricken composer fled from the house. Such different personalities will soon again be associated together...
John J. Cox of Peekskill, N. Y., Yale '91, a second year student at the Law School, died Saturday afternoon at his room at 20 Berkeley St. of tubercular-cere-brospinal menengitis, after an illness of four days. He graduated from Andover and entered Yale in 1887. He led his class at college and was a member of the Skull and Bones Society...
...College Chronicle has for a motto the sentiment esto cere perennius, which, for the sake of posterity, we trust relates to the institution of which it is the organ and not to the publication itself, unless the latter undergoes a speedy and thorough reform. Its tone is puerile and weak throughout, and is rendered doubly so by the enormous society-titles of "Cliosophic" and "Philorhetorian," to which it gives prominent positions in its columns...