Word: likings
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...rest of the number is ordinary in comparison with these. "The Taming of the Shrew" is a Robert Chambers tale of a southern man and a college cousin who emerge, like Shadrach and Abednego, from a very vivid forest fire to find themselves engaged. "Idle Thoughts of an Idle Art," is a typical college essay of the lighter sort, pleasant, facile, well-written, and without much significance...
...much for the facts. I should like to add an opinion based on some study of Memorial Hall affairs, as to some of the important causes of the unsatisfactory condition there during the fall. Chiefly because of the large plant and the attempt to pay off the debt too rapidly Memorial can furnish board cheaply only when a large number of men are eating there. Owing to unfortunate experiments in the past, the number was small even at the beginning of the College year. The food under the "fish and egg" system was unsatisfactory to many. Some left the Hall...
...statement was made at the time by several members of the Association. It sounds reasonable to advocate the maintenance of both systems in use at present. We should not be surprised if the writer had called attention to a good share of the trouble in advocating a more business-like effort to please the men who are boarding there, and thereby increase the membership of the Hall, rather than in finding the "easiest wholesale job for the management...
...know Scrooge's ghost when we see it, and the more we see it the better we like it. Scrooge's ghost is not nearly so empty and formal and cold as an ordinary ghost; on the contrary, it is very amiable and warm and merry, and improves on acquaintance. Nor does Scrooge's ghost come slyly down the chimney and pass on like a shadow, for after all it wants to make friends and is always ready to go more than half way in doing so. And it always feels that it has a particular claim on the Yule...
...CRIMSON wishes there were more ghosts like that of Scrooge, although it believes that it could find a good many among its readers. It is not going to preach at all, and while it is going to wish its readers a merry Christmas and happy New Year, it knows of what small worth are mere wishes. It knows further how its readers and all other readers can have both a merry Christmas and a happy New Year,--and that is by listening to the Christmas Carol and so becoming excellent friends with Scrooge's ghost...