Word: musee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This conception of the University as a vast hive of little brain cells has of course great value as an antidote for the football, pleasure and leisure mad undergraduate. Before many the academic muse can only gape, sigh, and pass on. For these even the shining example of France is of no avail. All that is left to those who scorn the battle of the books is the "paradise of the shirker and the drifter". An examination, of this paradise would be interesting. To the casual observer it might well be summarized by a rough sketch depicting Don Juan...
...Fringe. Last week, before the tabulation of poems could begin, a choir intoned five times the Sub lime Emperor's own treatment of the theme, lines which, needless to say, will not be judged. With his royal brush the Son of Heaven had painted ideographs meaning: I muse on the strength of the rocks Enduring the ceaseless beating of the waves On the rugged shores. There was no more, for poems in the best Japanese classic style of vers de societe are always short, frequently epigram matic. Such poems are intended not to mirror thought, but to stimulate...