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...happen; the grand tour of Alphonse Marichaud in the foreign field of the written word is extraordinary. Letters to a friend -to a mistress-sharp, vivid, merry, little incidents-characterizations of people, of places as clean and telling as if they were cut on a copper plate-a startling potpourri of wit, vigor, irony, tragedy, acute observation - self-portrait of Marichaud himself that ranks among the few convincing descriptions of genius in recent fiction-all these jostle each other with all the inconsecutiveness of life itself in the pages of The Grand Tour. Beluga caviar for the appreciative, a discriminating...
...Markheim." In romantic view, C. G. Paulding '18 perhaps best appeals to a normal college public with delicate reminiscence of a childhood love-dream. The author unfortunately at first sets an apparently older tone. There is entertainment also in Percival Reniers '16's article, "Speaking of Trifles," where his potpourri of forced daily themes resembles a theme corrector's nightmare. Of the prose pastels, "Charity" too obviously allies itself in subject and manner to Spoon River...
...will perhaps seem that this attempt to criticise the attitude of the Monthly in its jumbled and undigested potpourri of fact and fantasies has actually drifted into a narrow defence of CRIMSON standards. Such is not my object. The CRIMSON may fairly be criticised more than almost any undergraduate organization because its possibilities of good and evil are great. Let it not be forgotten, however, that it takes longer hours and more persistent hard work to get elected to its board than to win almost any other distinction in the College. Let it not be forgotten that although its standards...
...program follows: 1. March, "Soldiers Field," Fletcher '07 2. Overture, "Poet and Peasant," Suppe 3. Waltz, "The Skaters," Waldteufel 4. Selections, "The Mikado," Sullivan 5. Baritone Solo by Mr. Rowland, "The Two Grenadiers," Schumann 6. Potpourri, "Hans the Flute Player," Ganne 7. Baritone Solo by Mr. Rowland, "Le Cor," Flegier 8. Selections, "The Arcadians," Talbot and Monckton 9. March, "Our Director," Bigelow 10. "Fair Harvard," Gilman...
...program is as follows: "Bedouin Song," Foote '74 Glee Club. "One Thousand and One Nights' Waltz," Strauss Mandolin Club. College Medley, Rice Banjo Club. "Hong Kong Romance," Hadley Glee Club. Italian Potpourri, Arr. by Rice Mandolin Club. "Dill Pickles," Johnson, arr. by Rice Banjo Club. "Night Has a Thousand Eyes," Nevin Glee Club. Grand Opera Gems, Arr. by Rice Mandolin Club. "The Assembly," Smith, arr. by Rice Banjo Club. "Fair Harvard," Gilman 1811. Arr. by Spalding Glee Club...