Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marion Lloyd, Miss Locke's clubmate who won the title in 1928 and 1931, fences with classic style and admirable poise, but flashing speed has lately enabled Miss Locke to beat her. She did it last week not quite so easily as the score suggested, 5-1, then came up against Miss von Hansa for the second time. It was a terrific bout. Finally at 4-all Miss Locke, attacking steadily, reached a climax of speed which her adversary could not parry, got home the winning hit. That settled the championship for another year, because all three...
Good horror stories are rarer than almost any other kind of fiction. When the blurb-writer for The Werewolf of Paris wanted a horror-classic to compare it with, he hit on Bram Stoker's famed Dracula (1899). still the seldom-disputed favorite in its field. Author Endore's discursive narrative does not keep up to Dracula's plane but it has its moments...
Study in this department is centralized in the Music Building. In the Music Library books required in courses are on reserve, and all the standard classic and modern literature is available, as well as books and a very complete collection of records, which may be played on the phonographs in the Building...
...songs represent something of an anomaly: Dryden, the greatest of English neo-classic writers has excelled himself as a lyric poet; and further he wrote the best of them, "Alexander's Feast," at the age of sixty-six, when the fire of most songsters has long since died. Dryden's lyric gift was constant throughout his long and varied literary career. The songs are some of them in the tradition of Catullus and Robert Herrick, some in that of the popular English plain-song. They are most exquisite when most indecent, and very beautiful both when...
...library. There are numerous examples in other departments of the University. The Anthropology department is forced to do without even the simplest supplies for its students, while the Physics department can furnish each of twenty Freshman with an instrument valued at eighty dollars. Besides such minor cases, there are classic monstrosities like the Engineering School, which has been laboring for years in a morass of difficulties originating in the will which endowed...