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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thence, by the warden's office who after these many years still thinks I be one of the maintenance department; and thence into the main corridor which so early in the morning is colored in many stained lights; and beautiful it is! Whereupon, no sooner out the door I was much surprised to meet Mr. Durant and was sore at my heart lest he come for the rent; but no, he did come only to see how the workman progressed...
...certainly, any pat classification into which you might try to slip it. The plot, except as a mere framework or skeleton on which the study of character hangs, is completely inconsequential. It could have developed a dozen different ways in a dozen different places without affecting the story's main interest, and this is its weakness as the plot of a novel. Incidents have been "dragged in by the ears"; incidents which do not develop logically out of each other. Such are the slaying of a College watchman by Oliver Alden's father when indulging in collegiate monkeyshines; (this...
...overlooked that the theme in 'Hamlet' is only a revival of the ancient theme of Orestes." The Shakespere critique is only a rather long deviation from the real subject, which is the life-drama of Plato and Socrates, but it is an "aside" that intensifies the interest of the main theme. Perhaps Solovyev is so stimulating a critic because he was himself a poet, even a mystic, as well as "second to A. Tolstoy alone in the art of nonsense verse," to quote from Prince Misky again...
...Jones's spring exhibition was filled with such bits of class consciousness as We Demand, Garbage Eaters, Demonstration. All summer he spent in the wheatfields near St. Louis, painting the hot sun on the yellow grain, the brawny bodies of the threshers. Eleven of these pictures were the main part of his show last week, again won Artist Jones loud applause from critics...
...Harvard student of two hundred years ago was fed in a manner closely resembling that of the English colleges, the "buttery" books reveal. Close to the main dining hall there was a pantry, managed by the butler, where students might order extra or special portions of choose, ale, butter, bread, jam, and the like, if they desired. When such an order was filled, the butler marked the purchase against the student's name listed on a record sheet tacked to the wall. Many of these record sheets are bound up in the "buttery" ledger...