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...alight are firebugs, then those who run must be fireflies. They are the perennial searchers for amusement. It is to be hoped that they never follow a false alarm, never miss a flaming catastrophe, and never get their wings scorched by the sparks from the engine or the fire. Nero, bring out your fiddle...
...Naughty Nero" at Dartmouth...
...Dartmouth Dramatic Association will present "Naughty Nero," a musical comedy, for the first time next Saturday night. The plot of the play deals with the age when Nero was at the height of his power. The old emperor, through his numerous extra vangances, has gone deeply into debt, and is unable to meet his obligations. Cinema Filmus, a moving picture man from Athens, relieves the embarrassing situation when he requests permission to purchase the moving picture rights for the burning of Rome. Nero, impressed by the magnitude of the offer, readily agrees to the purpose and the destruction of Rome...
...Nero played the fiddle while Rome burned; Harvard plays football while civilization totters. Is it, after all, too Brisbanian an analogy? There were a thousand men at the football mass meeting last Thursday and yet no one expects that a fraction of that number will attend the discussion of the war tonight. Nevertheless, it should be a good meeting. Partisan animosities are now well under control and most people are aware of their own ignorance or lack of insight into the fundamentals of the conflict that finds half the civilized world in arms. Under such circumstances, there is everything...
...CLASSICAL CLUB AND MODERN LANGUAGE CONFERENCE. Lecture. "The Golden House of Nero." (Illustrated.) Professor Christian K.F. Huelsen, of the German Imperial Archaeological Institute in Rome. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...