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...nobler love render the beautiful and gifted Carlota, so comprehending of herself and others, impervious to a love far from satisfying? And how could Philip, the object of the love, once awake to human passion, return so inexorably to a calm monastic prison? Ever conscious of "The Cloister and the Hearth" with its profound tragedy of two ever-faithful lovers, the reader finds in the story of Philip and Carlota little to arouse emotion...
...spite of the fact that the compulsory daily service does not, to use Milton's phrase, "dissolve them into ecstacies and bring all Heaven before their eyes." But what shall now be said for the sons of Nassau, whose feet have ever been forced "to walk the studious cloister's pale...
...college years have come and gone; Fall, Winter and Spring have issued their round of invitations to "come out and play"; the varied life which makes of college something more than a hermit's cloister, has circulated all about these men, but has not touched them. Of their relation to the college it might be said: "They are in it but not of it." Mediaeval monks possessed all the knowledge of their day; yet the conviction is now widespread that their's was a terribly warped and limited existence, and not a pattern to be copied. It would...
Action will be taken today against the Colony and Cloister Clubs and also against the individual ringleaders in the affair...
Three Sheffield students were jailed for inviting policemen into the club houses during the brawls and for turning in false fire alarms. These men were members of the Colony and Cloister Clubs...