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...benefits which the students conferred upon themselves was a nifty street-lighting system in the vicinity of Fraternity Row to the detriment of the more refined portion of Amherst which was compelled to find its way home by the light of uncertain kerosene while the college man enjoyed the mellow light of gas. Perhaps the climax of their attempts at home rule came, however, when a determined bloo passed a bill calling for an appropriation sufficient to defray building a covered walk between Amherst and Smith. No evidence of this proposed boon to mankind a visible today, but the measure...
...piano itself does produce extraordinarily clear and mellow tones except in the last two octaves of the upper and lower registers, which are too shallow and metallic and are without sufficient richness or body of sonority, respectively. The piano, however, has great possibilities, for a revision of the conventional grand has become more obviously necessary in the past few years. The number of dry and inflexible pieces of mechanism that have been manufactured by commercialists has increased insufferably. It is a curious phenomenon that the piano has remained the same for fifty years except for occasional experiments with double keyboards...
Somehow, Geneva has been particularly impotent during the recent succession of European crises. One might expect the usual beau geste, the customary mellow phrase from that superannuated society of diplomats, but even that has been lacking. The reason may be found in the constitution of the organization itself. At its inception, the right to declare war was expressly reserved for each of its members gathered, ostensibly, to outlaw it. Rampant, nationalisms cannot enter a suicide pact cheerfully unless their pistols are loaded with blank cartridges...
There is in Alexandria, as in Cambridge, a Harvard Street. For years this suburban street with all its New England connotations existed as a source of minor irritation to the mellow inhabitants of the Old South. Now Harry Burke, chairman of the Alexandria Park and Planning Commission, proposes to change the name to Monree Street, as he feels that "The teachings of Harvard University always have been alien to Virginia traditions," and he desires to honor the name of a famous Virginian. But Harvard is quickly defended by a surviving Barbara Frietchle, who in a letter of strong opposition...
...sinister too. But through a rain of horsey talk it seems that purity of race is not everything. The son fends off a designing chorus girl. The daughter finds here true love. The horse winds the Futurity at Belmont Park (offstage), saves the family fortunes. And Florence Reed, permitted mellow, quizzical and domineering has a high time. A neighborly matron remarks in suprise at her daughter's knowledge of the turf: "We haven't had a horse in the place since her father died...