Word: mice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reached as to the source of the fire, four theories were suggested by the firemen. The first, that of a defective electric light wire, was investigated, but but quickly rejected. A far more likely explanation lays the cause of the fire to a nest, built by either birds or mice, in which a match might have been used in the process of construction and then accidently ignited. Another fireman suggested that the workmen who had been repairing the southern side of the roof the evening before might have carelessly dropped a match or a cigarette. The chief, however, regarded...
...Phillips Brooks House open house yesterday evening, 125 members of the University were present. In Peabody Hall, which was decorated appropriately for a Thanksgiving "evening, C. T. Leonard 1G. on the piano, members of the Glee Club singing, Mice Adolo 'Dowling of the Emerson School of Oratory reading, and Philip Walker '25, prestidigitator, combined to make the evening entertaining...
...Pavloff's newest experiments, not yet completed, are on white mice. The rodents were trained to run to their feeding place at the sound of an electric bell. It took 300 repetitions of the feeding-ringing combination to make the mice run at the sound of the bell. The same thing was tried on the offspring of the original mice, and they learned the connection after only 100 repetitions. The third generation absorbed the theory after 30 lessons, the fourth required 10 repetitions and the fifth but five. The sixth generation will be tested after Dr. Pavloff...
Classic literature is full of parody. The Batrachomyomachia--"Battle of the Frogs and Mice"-- a travesty of the heroic epic, was long attributed to Homer, and certainly is as old as the fifth century before Christ. Aristophanes mimicked Euripides with side splitting and enraging effectiveness. Cervantes' Don Quixote is sheer parody. In our own language we have a great volume of comic imitation. Shakespeare parodied and was parodied. Milton's ponderous solemnity was the subject of endless ribald travesty in his own momentous metre. Shelley did not shame to lampoon dear old Wordsworth...
...Morrison's essay, "The City of Mice", like all of his work that I have seen, is beautifully written. It really succeeds in its intention of exalting the ridiculous to the sublime. The author has breathed new life into the bygone idiom of poetic prose, and made it his own. Something should come of this. Mr. Hathaway, in his "Recollections of Reality", enlisted my sympathies with a corkscrew, and then began to alienate them with trout flies. Personally, I have always shunned as tedious any discussion of the superfluous and objectionable passion for hooking fish. But Mr. Hathaway broke down...