Word: friend
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...drama. The scene is laid in the old Litchfield Inn, where two London gentlemen arrive one night in search of a fortune, the one disguised as a servant to the other. Aimwell, the master, goes to church, and promptly falls in love with a woman in the congregation. His friend, Archer, finding out that the woman has a fortune, approves, and very soon falls in love with her sister. By much amusing stratagy the two men meet the ladies and are later able to save them from a gang of thieves. The chief merits of the comedy are the quality...
...necessarily makes for a different mental attitude on the part of the undergraduates. Their competition is far less strenuous. I do not mean that the play is less vigorous. But it tends to make the mere winning or losing of less relative importance. It is as though your best friend beats you in a game; you simply try to beat him the next time you play. But with us, if your greatest rival upsets your whole campaign, which has included a number of contests with other rivals in which considerable prestige is lost by defeat, the only thing left...
...necessarily makes for a different mental attitude on the part of the undergraduates. Their competition is far less strenuous. I do not mean that the play is less vigorous. But it tends to make the mere winning or losing of less relative importance. It is as though your best friend beats you in a game; you simply try to beat him the next time you play. But with us, if your greatest rival upsets your whole campaign, which has included a number of contests with other rivals in which considerable prestige is lost by defeat, the only thing left...
...some details concerning the famous library of the University of Louvain, now entirely destroyed by the German invaders, and of the treasures it contained. Unfortunately, no printed catalogue of the library was ever published, like the one so admirably compiled for the Bibliotheque Royale of Brussells by my late friend, the learned Pere Vanden Gheyn. I have, however, lately obtained some first-hand information concerning the library and its pitiful fate which may be of interest...
...refused. I have sent his number to Mr. Tibbetts. The officer informed me that it was a nightly occurrence! Think of it! I would not have believed it had I not seen it with my own eyes. He said it was the Lampoon Building, and then I understood. A friend of mine who once handed in a joke to the Lampoon says that he has heard that there is hardly a man on the board who has not defiled his lips with liquor. Suppose the Boston papers should hear of this! Harvard's standing in the West and South would...