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...Thoreau's little hut by Walden Pond he treasured a single ornament- a fine specimen of granite, cut and polished by himself. To enjoy its delicate markings, Thoreau had to dust the stone every day. At length he decided that the time spent in polishing the little block was out of all proportion to its value; it was needlessly cluttering his life. So one day pitched it into the middle of the pond...
...evolution, the appearance of the Register was greeted with more or less perfunctory applause. Everyone recognized its value, but few felt urged by curiosity to purchase a copy. This year the Register Board has done its best to change this attitude. The cover alone makes the volume a necessary ornament to every study table, to say nothing of the possibilities of amusement, on evenings when there is nothing else to do but study, offered by the delightfully puzzling charts of neckties and hatbands. And there must be a budding financial wizard on the Board who gives us all this...
...possibilities of modern stage affects. Since both the Dramatic Club and the Workshop would produce all their plays at the theatre, while Pi Eta and Hasty Pudding would also have an opportunity for larger public performances when they so desired, it should in no sense be a monumental ornament useful only once or twice a year. More over, in view of the decreased building costs, that expense of such a theatre would not be at all prohibitive...
...stubborn pride they always bear their heads high, and are never known to escape. We have found Ilama bones in many of the potsherds unearthed, notably in the vicinity of the sacred temple; and we constantly find tracings of pairs of Ilamas carved in the rock and as ornament on buildings. The Ilama seems to have been the emblom of the university, just as bulldogs and tigers are used for the embloms of certain modern institutions. Cordially yours, J. BLAIE-DUNCAN...
...Record of penalties imposed by order of the Circle of the Elders: (1) Gaka Iguantec, for failure to remove his neck-ornament during the morning service--two volumes of the Contours of Andean Stratification, to be read and reported in outline...