Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...almost two centuries Holden Chapel has proudly held its place between Hollis and Stoughton, its classic walls guarded by chubby cherubs and ancient ivy. Its personal history embraces a long and diverse stream of utility from that of college chapel and moral court to a science lecture room, laboratory and museum. Revolutionary soldiers upset its interior beauty during their enoampment in Cambridge, and it has never been restored. A suitable mecca for Harvard men would be created by its restoration, a lasting token of the tercentennial celebration preserved, and the elusive but eternal sparks of a great tradition enhanced within...
...Crustularius, the classic pastry cook, is about 300 years old. It became widespread with the price drop that took sugar out of the luxury class in the 1830's. Such culinary guides as Carême's Maitre d'Hotel francaise, and Ranhofer's Epicurean published elaborate engravings and full directions for making Roman helmets of strawberry ice cream and pistachios, spun-sugar rabbits stuffed with puddings or parfaits, wheelbarrows of pastry filled with sugar roses. The tower of pastry with its 52 candles awaiting President Roosevelt last week was not his first crustularian masterpiece...
...star in Erin's sky. Known to only a few U. S. readers by a book of short stories (Midsummer Night Madness), he should soon, if A Nest of Simple Folk gets the audience it deserves, be visible throughout at least one hemisphere. This big novel of classic Irish types is set firmly in the oldfashioned, solid novel tradition, earmarked neither by the violent realism nor the violent mysticism of modern Ireland's civil war of letters...
...camp-meeting ground is now a clutter of triple-porched cottages named Bideawee, Restawhile, Dewdrop Inn. There are several faintly classic concert & lecture halls, a huge wooden amphitheater, a miniature reproduction of the Holy Land. Chautauquans may study anything from basket-weaving to playwriting. Most cottagers, who return year after year, are elderly. Men have a Horseshoe Club, women a Bird & Tree Club headed by Founder Miller's daughter, Mrs. Thomas Alva Edison. Each day begins with community prayer. Chief social events are ice-cream-&-cake festivals. A ban on smoking has been lifted lately. Younger Chautauquans may boat...
...Japanese officers who pepper the Empire with brightly printed pamphlets such as Dream of War Between the United States and Japan by fire-eating Lieut. Commander Kyosuke Fukunaga of the Imperial Navy, retired. Last week horrified U. S. customs men at Honolulu seized 77 boxes full of this Japanese classic aboard the crack liner Chichibu Maru, name-ship of Japan's Crown Prince...