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...advent of the Freshman, the upperclassman arrives in Cambridge officially unnoticed. He has put aside the buoymant brightness of the youths who, making their college debut, are full of hope for the four golden years. He betrays no interest in the novelty of his surroundings. He has long outgrown the state of credulity that indicates inward illusions and is peculiarly attractive to book-agents and purveyors of pressing contracts. The upperclassmen returning passes through the Square unremarked. He belongs in it, for another year at least, like the Pill...
...Colleges are steadily changing, though; at one time it was thought that Latin and Greek were absolutely essential. Now that stage has been outgrown, it is similarly qnite possible that in time the present college ideas on college education will change and adapt themselves to the money-making psychology which has such a grip on this country...
...Mailbag's judgement, have emitted a definite sparkle in the thick welter of advertisements-blatant and humble, proud and straining, prosaic and hysterico-lyrical-that fill the public prints. Lately, the Mailbag found a gem. It was in the American Mercury and it advertised that melange of outgrown modes and manners, The Mauve Decade by Thomas Beer (TIME, July 5, BOOKS), not only in the curlicued typefaces of 30 years ago, but likewise in the hoarse, stentorian phrases of an 1890 barker...
...play. Does life plagiarize literature? Only last week, in a noisy director's room in London, the scene was enacted exactly as Mr. Galsworthy planned it. Sir Thomas Lipton was the oaken figure at the foot of the table. The tea business, a shareholder hinted, had far outgrown the ability of its founder. It needed, perhaps, a younger man - Sir John Ferguson, director of finance. Another share holder pointed out that the company's overdraft at the bank was ?10,000 in March. He would like to know what it was today...
...Oriental department of the Fogg Museum has entirely outgrown its quarters and the treasures of the first China expedition cannot be shown until they move into the new building. The Bruce collection of Chinese paintings also can not be made available until next year. Crowded as they are, however, three large Chinese frescoes which have been acquired within the past few months can be seen at the Museum. One of these was given by Herberi Strauss '03 and another by certain friends of the Fogg Museum. They have not yet been made the subject of special investigation but are thought...