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...Theatre Guild's program, containing several notable productions, was given in TIME, July 9. . . . There is an apparently authentic rumor extant that Elsie Ferguson will appear in a new play by J. M. Barrie. . . . Two plays by Zona Gale, including Faint Perfume, will be produced...
...Lung, happily bribed, and urbane as ever, departed for the house of his fathers with his bride, the Golden Mouse. "Venerated Father," exclaimed Kai Lung, "this is she who has been destined from the beginning of time to raise up a hundred sons to keep your life extant." "In that case," remarked the patriarch, "your troubles are only just beginning . . ." and the story ends. The stories told by Kai Lung in his golden hours-fantastic, urbane, ironic, witty, courteous, magical- -these stories, naturally, are the substance of the book-jade emblems strung on a cord of Chinese silver, emblems marked...
...purpose of the agreement, which marks a new departure in intercollegiate athletic policy, is "to improve the extant conditions and to establish intercollegiate athletics more securely in their proper position as valuable elements in a wholesome college life." President Lowell in his last annual report deplored the "excessive importance" that public interest now gives to college athletic contests. The new agreement is expected to lesson this tendency and to remove any taint of professionalism caused by lax eligibility rules or over-extensive schedules...
There is also on exhibit in the Treasure Room a collection of books about the founding and early history of Harvard College. The collection includes the only known extant volume from the library of John Harvard...
...handle the scared relics. Those were the days when nobody roomed on the Gold Coast; those were the times when Richard Walach stopped at Mr. Holmes' and Josiah Mood lodges at Mrs. Quibbs'. Why is it that Increase Mather's Bible is two inches thicker than any other extant Bible? Perhaps you already know that Increase Mather's ghost rapped a Freshman soundly on the knuckles for accidentally pulling out a musical comedy program with his handkerchief while bending over the pious manuscripts...