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There the full splendor of the Widener Library is revealed. In an atmosphere of medieval picturesqueness sit hundreds of students at tables. Diligently they pore over their books, sitting stiffly upright, apparently prevented from relaxation by an overweening lust for knowledge. Like St. Simeon Stylites on his pillar, they have abandoned the comforts of this world in devotion to their ideal. Into this romantic dungeon the clangor and lurid brightness of external civilization do not penetrate...
...Pore Ignorant People...
...jest wanta say a word to thank that there northern feller Carmer for the fine book he has wrote about us pore ignorant people down here in Alabama [TIME, July 2]. They shore do discover things about us and we do like for the rest of the world to know how we live down here...
...research professors and guards at the windows of the twin-spired Historical Museum at the north end. Behind one of those windows last week a U. S. teacher named Arthur Fletcher was taking time off from his research duties in the Institute of the Monopoly of Foreign Trade to pore over a bourgeois treasure the museum director had found for him: The Talisman in Sir Walter Scott's first draft...
...cartoonist ever to be tried for sedition as a result of his pacifist pictures in the old Masses during the War. (Two jury disagreements resulted in a mistrial.) "Art" Young has two predilections, Hell and trees. His interest in Hell started as a boy when he used to pore over the family copy of Dore's Dante. . His first book of infernal drawings, Hell Up to Date was published in 1892. Another followed in 1901. A third appeared last week.* All these depict the plight of a race of pudgy little people who, all hot and naked, are pursued...