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Merrill Gaunt was a man of unusual and heroic character, and had given himself to the highest calling in life. He was 24 years old, and although born in Rhode Island, had spent the greater part of his life in Methuen. He prepared for college at Worcester Academy, took his degree at Amherst, and continued his studies in the Andover Theological Seminary and the Divinity School...
True enough, Harvard was old Harvard, and Boston was old Boston, when Life was but a prospect; and men who go to Harvard do "get a taste of Boston." But why the rash generalization that "all the good of Harvard is that it is a Boston institution"? Is the bespectacled city alone responsible for the development at Harvard of men successful in various fields,--in fact, for several splinters in Life's editorial staff? That Boston is but seven minutes by subway is no reason for attributing to blue laws and conservatism adverse or favorable criticism due to Harvard. Since...
Candidates should report at the Locker Building this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. The management will supply sticks, and old clothes and sneakers are all the equipment needed...
...first produced in Paris in 1913 at the Theatre Sarah Bernhardt, and, with the foremost of modern French actors, M. Guitry, in the chief role, scored a great success. It was written during the trouble between France and Morocco, and shows the struggle between a militarist father of the old school and a pacifist son with modern ideas. Although the play was written a full year before the outbreak of the present European war, the author foresaw the trend of events, and the play ends with the declaration of war between France and Germany. It will be followed...
...graduate committee was appointed to raise a building fund, since neither of the old buildings would answer the purpose, and the present structure on Mount Auburn street is the result of the committee's labors. The building itself will remain under the control of a board of trustees for the use of undergraduate members...