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...examination period there are just two kinds of students: those who have finished, those who have not. At such a time the great mediaeval problem of distinguishing between the saved and the damned resolves itself into a simple matter of time. Already the great trek, the annual hegira, the exodus, the migration, the wholesale flight from Cambridge has begun. Happy youths gloat over and display to friends long yards of tickets to the mountains, to the lakes, to Europe (including Paris), to anywhere--it doesn't matter much--so long as the passage reads "from Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THIS NEW FREEDOM | 6/6/1925 | See Source »

...wise at present to devote surplus sums, if on hand, for such a purpose. Something, however, can be done. Certain of the graduate dormitories can be apportioned for this school. The Law School and the Medical School enjoy this sort of privilege. When the Business School makes its exodus from Cambridge to the other bank of the Charles, more dormitory accommodations will be available. Then indeed the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences may come into its own; but until that millenium arrives there is no reason why some fairly acceptable arrangement can not be made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DESIRABLE UNITY | 5/22/1925 | See Source »

...nursemaids have come back to the yard, glorifying it with pink bands and baby carriages, bringing with them a touch of domesticity, a gentle reminder of Spring. The long-suffering tradesmen of the Square have forgotten their unpaid bills and are lounging contentedly in the doorways, watching the student exodus--secure in the knowledge that their creditors will soon be back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESH AIR | 4/18/1925 | See Source »

...raucous clanging of a hurry bell and the road of a high powered motor broke the accustomed quiet of the noon hour in the Yard yesterday. A considerable number of the classroom exodus turned at the sound and witnessed the arrival of a large red ambulance which came to an auspicious stop before Thayer Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ambulance Brings Mysterious Trunk to Thayer Hall in Noon Hour--Owner Admits It Contains Something Deceased | 2/17/1925 | See Source »

...pushed back, the Israelites just passed over, the Egyptians not yet come up-Mr. Pann of Jerusalem paints the pictures that his heart perceives. He has set himself the task of illustrating the Bible. Already he has finished 125 pictures, covering Genesis and the beginning of Exodus. Said he: "I have always felt it a reproach that almost every nation has produced its painter of the Bible except the one whose genius created that wonderful Book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: In Jerusalem | 12/15/1924 | See Source »

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