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...Ulreich nicknamed her Nura because he "never calls people by their right names." Her right name is Norah Woodson Ulreich. When she and her husband do murals together they sign them Bukannura. Living in a Manhattan studio, they have no children because Nura feels a real one might engross her to the point that she could not paint imaginary ones...
This annual concentration meeting is an essential and very valuable preliminary to the process of picking future fields of study which will engross the Freshman mind for the next month. But it is only a preliminary. Consultations, advice, decisions, reconsiderations, and more decisions will follow each other in rapid succession until five o'clock on May 2 and the threat of a five dollar fine finally bring the doubtful to a decision...
...Pogany's sets, an Egyptian fantasy unrolled itself out of Tut-Ankh-Amen vestments. Once upon a time Prince Rames sallied forth to possess himself of the fruit of the tree. And did. Authentic folklore it is, with talking alligators -scholarly, picturesque, but apparently not the thing to engross an audience...
...subjects, together with a somewhat thorough study of one among them. What that one should be will vary with the personal aptitude of the student. In my own opinion, it is better, as a general rule, that it should not be too closely akin to the subject which will engross attention in the chief occupation of life; because any direct professional knowledge that can be obtained in college is trifling compared with what can be acquired in a far shorter period in a professional school, and the attempt to obtain it crowds out some other subject that will probably never...
Journalism is an activity which ought to engross college men greatly. It is the only aspect of American life which has deteriorated in the last thirty-five years. We need an invasion of academic spirit, honor and sacrifice to raise it above its present mediocrity and to make it an open, powerful and beneficial influence in our modern life. A university paper such as the CRIMSON offers a great opportunity for college men to prepare for such an invasion...