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...first Yardling to successfully wind his way through the maze of Memorial Hall on Registration Day will receive a free subscription to the CRIMSON. All Yardlings are urged to be at Memorial Hall as early as possible on Friday morning inorder to take part in this great writing and running contest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Registration Contest | 9/5/1940 | See Source »

...there were who believed that if the convention went beyond six ballots, each dark horse in the field looked as good as well-paced leaders. Because of the slow gearing of the convention program* many a watcher felt that dark horses carried a heavy handicap. But in the maze of speculation and guesses, addition and subtraction of variables, the point that stood out was that, win or lose, the spectacular campaign of Wendell Willkie belonged with the great U. S. political stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGNS: The Story of Wendell Willkie | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

...remained a question why the human mind was so mysteriously hauntable. Yeats had looked for an answer, not in psychoanalysis, but in psychological religions - Rosicrucianism, Cabalism, Swedenborg, Boehme, Blake- and in the memorabilia of men of literary and artistic genius, from Homer to Ezra Pound. Through this darkling maze Yeats resolutely followed his nose. He was hot on the track of the thing that would enable a poet to know just what he is doing, when he writes a poem that will haunt some other man like an unforgettable dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

That tradition is emblazoned in the House Coat of Arms, rung out once a month by fifteen tons of Russian bells hung in the vane-topped tower, observed once a week at the ceremonial High Table. That spirit lives in every one of the 292 members who inhabit the maze of rooms. That way of life, shared by all members, is cemented by a constant round of communal activity--the Christmas play, the seasonal dances, the year-round sports competition. After ten years of incessant building, the House is infinitely more than a place to eat, sleep, and study...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COOLIDGE SPECIAL | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...kneed attempt to build up Verdi as a nationalist idol bogs down in conventional heroics. In a last desperate effort at unity, the director drags in a love complication as profoundly touching as Hollywood's grade C productions. Never reaching beyond the suggestive, the picture loses itself in a maze of episodic trivia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/25/1940 | See Source »

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