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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speaking on "Book Collecting for the Poor Man," Arthur C. Sprague '21, assistant professor of English, will address a group in Kirkland House tomorrow evening at 7.30 o'clock when the Coffee Pot holds one if its regular after-dinner meetings. Besides being a member of the English department, Professor Sprague is chairman of the Board of Tutors in Modern Languages...
Under the tutorial system the Music Department is trying to give undergraduates a perspective of the history of music as a whole. Picture the plight of the poor student who goes to find some fifteenth century music. He finds that he must content himself with only two collections: early Bodleian music and the Drukmaeler series, good as these may be. Still undismayed, he decides to look over the century when chamber music and opera first flowered--from 1600 to 1700. It is a slight shock to find that the shelves are quite innocent of most of such music, in spite...
...Vagabond has been sitting for an hour with nary a thought in his poor addled brain. The moon laughs in at him through the window and the lights on the river twinkle "Out for a gambol and revel with the doxies. It's spring...
...actor are well known. In this picture the audience is provided with an excellent opportunity to decide which they prefer: Mr. Robinson the hero, or Mr. Robinson the gangster-villain. For in this picture Mr. Robinson is both. The story concerns itself with the adventures of a poor, harmless, rabbit-like clerk when it is discovered that he bears an astonishing resemblance to the escaped killer and big shot, Mannion, Both paris are played by Mr. Robinson. Jean Arthur, who has seldom shone very brightly in the stellar firmament of Hollywood, gives an excellent, performance as an easy-going, devil...
...real tragedy in the case was poor Secretary Ickes. In a fight in which he had no interest, he was made to take the whole blame for the autocracy of his superior. How pathetic and weak he seemed when reporters asked him about the Moses case! All he could do in his defence was re-assert again and again his boredom about the whole matter. Then finally having been released from carrying through such an impossible and unjust action, he must make silly, hypocritical excuses for the whole affair, and let the world despise him more. Let us hope that...