Word: containers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present Senior class is the youngest Harvard group to have seen President Eliot at his last official University function. It is, therefore, fitting that this Memorial Issue contain some account of the celebration on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday. Not only did that day impress itself upon the minds of the students as a day of homage to the Grand Old Man of America, the man to whom they owed thanks for their great University, but also as the day on which the most splendid ovation in history was accorded an educator. It was then shown that the nation...
Admirers of Joseph Conrad will be interested to note that two of his diaries containing a description of a journey in Congo have been put on exhibition in the Treasure Room of Widener Library this week. The diaries contain not only accounts of the journey, but also maps, profile sections, and travelling directions. An early and much interlined draft of "Lord Jim" is also being exhibited. This draft is scribbled in a commonplace blank book which contains a few extracts in Polish, possibly in his mother's hand...
...drunk freely and openly with State guarantee of freedom from harmful adulterant. But in the United States the legal penalty for this harmless act is death. That death does not result from the many drinks taken is because our law is not enforced; legally all alcohol sold should contain the lethal dose of so-called denaturant. How many juries could be found to send a man to the gallows for taking one drink of whiskey? . . . "Had the United States adopted Quebec's plan and price list on Jan. 1, 1920, we might have continued to drink alcohol...
...yesterday's Student Vagabond mention was made merely in passing of the fact that the dramas of Euripides seemed hardly golerable to the German romanticist. A. W. Schlegel. This is particularly interesting when one realizes that Euripides works contain within them the seeds of the movement of which Schlegel was to be the formulator and popularizer. In fact it is impossible to understand the reason for this strange opposition unless one understands at the same time the romantic conception of the Greek and Greek...
...Witch. If her lines or "business" contain any dramatic quality at all, Alice Brady conveys it surely and deftly over the footlights. Her work in The Witch is one of the season's brilliant feats...