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...some morning of this week, students sleeping in the Yard will bound from their beds under the impression that bedlam and inferno have broken loose; for the 4500 pounds of metal in the new bell in Harvard Hall will be catapulting wildly from side to side of the reinforced tower for the first time...
...thought it a shame to land, and decided on an unscheduled reconnaissance flight due north over the seething floes. It was snowing a bitter blizzard, but far from shore the sun reappeared and they distinguished, 7,000 feet below, that the smooth sea had changed to a white inferno of hummocks ? the great polar icecap in the center of which is what geographers call "the pole of inaccessibility," one of the objectives for which their backers had sent them north...
...some disgruntled tourist should soak his catalogue in kerosene, light it and set fire to a picture, fanning the conflagration on until the flame, leaping from masterpiece to masterpiece, kindled the whole collection and turned Burlington House first into an inferno and then into a pile of ashes, insurance companies would pay the owners of the pictures $3,000,000. The portrait of Lord Balfour, loaned by the Carlton Club, was alone insured...
Thus fades the student magnificent; but only to change his abode. Stepping with seven league boots, the roistering scholar has set up a tidy little bohemian inferno of his own in the sacred precincts of Back Bay. The Quartier Latin in the flood days of vin rouge never dreamed of such boisterous revelry, nor of such cheerful flouting of conventionality as nightly reigns upon the banks of the Charles; if one may believe what he reads. But Fate is cruel, and already the prying eye of the reformer is looking askance at these nocturnal festivities. The end cannot...
Dante's Inferno. Dore rather than Dante was the libretto employed for this extraordinary study of home life in hell. All the writhing agonies of the Dore decorations are transplanted and pricked with pins to make them wriggle. Showers of fire, bubbling pitch, blood-stained harpies are industriously pitch-forked together for the discomfiture of most of the prominent sinners of History. It is all supposed to be the dream of a very wicked business man who fell asleep over a copy of Dante. Except for sinners who have the misfortune to be selfconscious, the film is respectfully recommended...