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...Ehrensperger's suggestion in the Alumni Bulletin that we extinguish the flames of college radicalism by pouring tea on them, is a little less quaint than it might appear at first blush. Indeed, one could go so far as to say that it would in all probability meet the approval of Mr. Calvin Coolidge himself and the editors of the Delineator. Certain skeptics, it is true, have irreverently questioned the accuracy of Mr. Coolidge's observation, and have asked to be shown signs that there really is any radicalism among college students. They point out that the average undergraduate exceeds...
...giving its owner the power to fly through the wind and clouds. The graceful nymph, "Tennin", played by Miss Madeline Brine '22 of Radcliffe, who cannot return to her native haunts in Tryiyama without her cloak, retrieves it from the fisherman only after she promised to teach him the quaint dance of the Japanese Tennis...
...difficult for a modern generation to find interest in the ultra-melodramatic novels of forty years ago, except as a source of ridicule or amusement at the customs and institutions of those quaint days. Nor is anything gained in the dramatization of such productions, save, possibly, a vivid reminder of how far we have progressed in manners and morals since the old-fashioned period of superlatively good heroines, impossibly honor able heroics, and most villainous of villains. Adapted to the exigencies of the stage, the Arlington Players last Monday height put on version of Mrs. Augusta Evans' famous novel...
...Temotiu, has already won rank as a classic among books of travel. Although its author will never be held a great stylist, he is supremely readable. What is more important, he has the power to make his reader see the scenes which he describes so colorfully and know the quaint characters that live between his pages...
...League and which is now called the Palais de Nations is to be its headquarters. Across the lake, lies the Salle de Reformation, presented by the Swiss government, and it is here that the meetings will be held. The flags of forty-one nations are now flying from this quaint capital, crowded with five thousand representatives from all parts of the world...