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...large number of paintings and drawings by Harvard and Radcliffe students, including original copies on many of the illustrations of "Codfish Cabot", will be put on exhibition today in Robinson Hall by the Harvard Fine Arts Club. The exhibit, which will be open daily from 9 to 6 o'clock to the public, will last for two weeks...
...Little Codfish Cabot" is essentially a satire, a satire that manages to include in one brief sweep all that goes to make up a certain type of Harvard education, with the exception, naturally, of studies. It is here that the sponsors of the book make their only mistake; for in portraying a single type as perhaps representative of the whole, they have laid themselves open to attack. Everyone does not misuses the Freshman Jubliee, or consider probation normal; and it is my guess that there will be some who will say so. But yet there is sufficient truth...
...broader," the yellow-green eyes flash-the man speaks. Once Kerensky spoke for twelve hours without stopping. Senor Ibañéz, after seeing him, thought he could speak for 24 hours and not be in the least affected. Said he: "The Russian has a mouth like a codfish . . . and a voice like a cross between a megaphone and a trombone...
...Gloucester, right in the City Hall, he proved that he was master of the fish-skinning world. Undisturbed by the delighted howls of excited "rooters" and indifferent to the jeers of the jealous enemies, he removed the backbones and fins and skins from a quarter of a ton of codfish in just fifty-three minutes. He won by six fish, with his audience standing on the benches and shouting themselves hoarse over his achievement...
...three seats behind ours, i. e., directly in front of me, there was the largest, most luminous, and withal the most ravishing pair of dark-blue eyes that were ever given a girl to do mischief with. When I say large eyes, I don't mean your overgrown, beetling, codfish eyes; nothing of the sort; for though these were large, they were deep-set and full of dreamy meditation and potential merriment, and bespoke a deal of misery in store for some poor fellow...