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...service depends on each man. If neatness is your weakness, rest assured that there will be a place for everything and everything will remain there. If you like to live in a state of cluttered order, the deft mop handlers can whisk every speck of dust away and never disturb one half-full whiskey bottle...
Rector Wolfgang Trillhaas was with the students, but he was not sure that he approved. "Personally," said Trillhaas over the clatter of steins, "I remain against these customs. But as long as you do not disturb the normal routine of university life, I am prepared to tolerate them." The fact was that Rector Trillhaas did not have much choice. With or without official sanction, the Burschenschajten were once again flourishing all over Western Germany...
...Picasso, unlike some of his admirers, is steeped in the past . . . His explorations have led him to stylistic exercises which at first sight disturb, or even horrify, but which, on analysis, reveal elements derived from remote antiquity or the art-forms of primitive peoples . . . [His] ceaseless industry . . . may seem to some capricious and rootless, but it undoubtedly deserves its reward in the greatest snob-following of our time...
Next to the neckwear industry, the perfumers rejoice particularly during the month of December. His lack of originality doesn't disturb the undergraduate pictured to the RIGHT who is being shown the line of smells available...
...when conversation is kept at a minimum. During dinner and supper, one of the brethren reads aloud while the others eat. For deeper meditation, the Society sets aside a two-week retreat in the summer, and one week in the winter. Fortunately, the subway traffic next door does not disturb the "greater silence" which lasts from supper until 9 o'clock in the morning...