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...brief seven days of relaxation from his studies produced his "Praise of Folly"--a tract so exquisitely satirical that it places him on a pedestal among his contemporaries and yet so pointed that it set the fire of unrest which was to break into an all-consuming flame when Luther, the violent forceful sword of reason pointed for battle with Rome. Although he was the subject of almost universal adulation Erasmus' life is in essence tragic. His unwillingness to partake of struggle, his profound hatred of violence prevented him from taking sides when all of Europe was madly partisan. Both...
...Jenkins appeared in flame-colored velvet, with yellow ringlets piled high on her head. For a starter she picked Brahms' Die Mainacht, subtitled on her gilt program as "O singer, if thou canst not dream, leave this song unsung." Mrs. Jenkins could dream if she could not sing. With her hands clasped to her heart she passed on to Vergebliches Standchen, which she had labeled "The Serenade in Vain...
...speech is scheduled to begin at 4 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall. It is expected that the "Red Flame" will talk on her experiences during recent strikes and the relation of the college student to the working class struggle...
...Burlak, one of the outstanding leaders of the Communist Party, has been secured by the Harvard National Student League to speak in the New Lecture Hall next Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Called the "Red Flame" by the press for her activity as an agitator among the working class, she will talk on her experience in recent strikes and the relation of the college student to the working class struggle. All students are invited. Miss Burlak has received considerable publicity, if not notoriety, for a person of her 24 years, and is now Secretary of the National Textile Union...
Starting next week Harvard's artillery men may be seen crouched over strange looking flame-vomiting instruments and bowling over toy houses hundreds of feet away...