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Nunc demum ver et Plautus adest; fons ardoris omnia irrigat. Qui modo adulescentes sobrii et severi crant, iam in theatro mirifice sunt amoris imperatores facti. Eheu, quam proterve K. Vadum Fractum, lascivi suboles gregis, iterum aestuat! Musae quidem Plautinae alto de caelo Cantabrigiam descenderunt; Risus Ludus Iocusque ubique vigescunt. Tempestas nobis arridet. O ver Plautinum! O collegium Harvardianum, nuper modestum morum bonorum praesidium, nunc vividum alacris motus gymnasium! Cavete igitur vos decani decanulique--"non intret Cato theatrum meum"--nec non vos, o septum novi homines qui ad spinosam Lapparum tutelam elevati estis. Quae enim saga Radcliffiensis, quis magus Harvardianus pollenti...
...collection of playing cards dating from the early "Ludus Cartularum" of the German Middle Ages to the modern bridge deck has been recently presented to the Widener Library by J. E. Whitney '89, who has been collecting the cards for more than 20 years...
...first known historical mention of the gaming pastboards is the reference of a German monk in 1377 to the "Ludus Cartularum", pastime of the kings and nobles. The pack seems to have consisted of 52 cards containing four suits, very much like the cards of the present day. There were ten numbered and three court cards in a deck. The suite marks on the former were very similar to the modern ones, and the latter consisted of a King and two Marshals, the "Obermann" and Untermann", one of whom held a sign upward in his hand and the other...
Wednesday.--Analysis of Extra-Liturgical Students Plays of the Twelfth Century: the Ludus Daniel and the Epico-Dramatic St. Nicholas Plays...
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