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There is no tragedy in the appearance of Harvard indifference in a happy disinterest in one's follow student. But it would be nearer farce than tragedy if more money should be wasted in the fulfillment of an imaginary need. And the need for a University Register has a certain air of reality...
...Barely had Ambassador Herrick tasted and copiously imbibed the nectar of French culture, when he saw the cup about to be dashed from his lips by blond Teutons to whom dusky, petite France was a morsel, not an inspiration. Nearer tramped the Conquerors. An impromptu French defense, mobilized in taxicabs seemed sure to crumble. Frightened, scared to the marrow, Frenchmen proceeded to withdraw their capital from Paris to Bordeaux. Automatically the Diplomatic Corps would follow the Government. Suddenly it was discovered that the U. S. Ambassador alone proposed to remain behind...
...astrologists, no one is nearer to the stars than Evangeline Adams (Mrs. George E. Jordan Jr.), hardy and cultured Yankee, descendant of the famed Adams family (John, John Quincy, Henry). To her office in Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, have flocked bigwigs and humble folk. She seats them in a chair facing her across her desk, takes out her charts, asks them a few simple questions on dates, and in several minutes tells them what they are and what would be well for them to do. She has been consulted by Mary Garden, Geraldine Farrar, Eva Le Gallienne, the late John Pierpont...
...original or modernization. Where, the question has been propounded, are new examples of the old methods? Where is the college parallel to George Kelly, to Maxwell Anderson? It is not, one may say quite assuredly, to be found in "The Chisholm Trail", but it does lie a great deal nearer it than, say, "The Orange Comedy...
...Played with steel studded wooden balls as big as baseballs. The player bowls his first ball (with an underhand, twisting throw) toward a tiny object ball. His opponent strives to bowl nearer the object ball, by shrewd control or oftener by knocking the enemy away...