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There is no trace of the incongruous about this book, for all that the heroine is (externally) incredibly minute. There is nothing unpleasant or morbid or deformed about Miss M. She is simply the distilled essence of you or me--or any frail other one of "the common size". All the people in these pages are alive. When next I am in Kent I am sure that I shall meet them--all save Miss M. herself who was so lately "called away...
...Schonberg Sextette is an exceedingly interesting work although it fares better perhaps in its original form than as arranged for string orchestra. It, too, could well stand cutting in half. This music to Dehmel's erotic poem is morbid and depressing, like a sombre engraving of dark greys and blacks which has only two flashes of white to relieve the monotony. These flashes occur, one in the middle in F sharp major and at the end in D major, when a sound like the rustling of wings comes from the violins. We cannot overlook the finished playing of the orchestra...
...hear an occasional echo nowadays that Yale is running down--that the undegraduates are not what they used to be. These morbid sounds come largely from the lips of those who were in college in the golden days of football supremacy. Results of the last few years led them to suppose that every other tradition has suffered in similar relapse. Accordingly the old and suspicious graduate will be watching with malevolent eye the actions of the college off for the summer. Occasionally he is rewarded by a freshman wandering from the straight and narrow path. The story, swollen by ingenious...
...said to have behaved strangely on Sunday evening, showing a morbid reluctance to see his friends and objecting to their coming into his room...
...tale. The question of collection is quite imminent. That part of the story seems to be progressing with difficulty. It is not to be doubted that those who have pledged will eventually make good their promise. Yet at present the undergraduate body might well be accused of having "a morbid propensity to sloth and procrastination." The collection of these pledges is ordinarily no easy work since they are so widely scattered. This gift of the University was not from a few, but from the whole body of students. Let us expedite this work by turning in our money at Phillips...