Word: notes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When those Dunster Funsters attempt to arrange an evening of amusement there is no telling what will happen. This mysterious note which found its way to the Crime is more or less self-explanatory. Whether or not the river was actually swum on that cold Friday night is a question left for future researchers. At any rate, there were signs of cracked ice along the partially frozen Charles Saturday morning...
...With more modern figures, Ellis is less successful. Obviously disliking Proust, obviously repelled by Proust's mysterious masterpiece, he makes a stubborn attempt to evaluate the work and analyze its author, does not seem to grasp their significance in terms of contemporary literature and thought. Yet the note of benign humor that runs through all Ellis' work is also evident in From Rousseau to Proust. Quoting a line from Restif de la Bretonne's licentious memoirs: "How pretty the girls are at Auxerre!" the aged philosopher observed, "I have found myself independently making precisely the same remark...
...with Their Heads! Peggy Bacon supplied brief prose texts that described her victims in mean, oblique phrases. Thus Franklin Roosevelt's head emerged as "a big trunk, battered by travel and covered with labels, mostly indecipherable." Cat-Calls is a collection of 36 poems in which the note of malice is a little muted, and in which an occasional tentative note of concern and passion is apparent between the lines. Most of Peggy Bacon's poems and pictures are impressions of city life, ranging from a glimpse of a laborer asleep in a subway to a literary party...
...English Joint Tortfeasors Act" is a legislation note explaining how the statutes could be applied in Northwestern states and gives suggestions for improvement...
...Note: Miss Masters is a young lady who has been on parties of almost every sort in almost every sort in almost every college in the country. And when we say parties we mean parties. One of the editors went on a party with Miss Masters and he hasn't come back yet; consequently she has kindly consented to write this article for the Crimson on Harvard House Parties...