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...succession of stage pictures, pictures that are a marvel of stage craft--pictures with reality, with geographical and historical interest, and at times of rare loveliness. The sprightly opening scenes take us to the old French colony of Nova Scotia, with the spinning wheel and the quaint costumes of Acadian peasants. The soft sylvan scene representing a shore of the southern Mississippi has peculiar charm, and the weirdness of the Indian wigwam and the trapper's hut in the wilds of northern Michigan brings to us again the attractiveness of some old-time plays. In the latter part...
...small portion of what we now call Gore Hall would be of "sufficient capacity to contain the probable accumulation of books during the present century." As we watch the derricks pulling down the walls of this intellectual Bastile we wonder in a somewhat patronizing air at President Quincy's quaint taste and short-sighted expectations. Let us forget his taste, and think about his short-sightedness. He made his mistake in judgment because he could not see our modern attitude towards books in education. Certainly many of us have not stopped to see our own attitude. We are simply conscious...
When the CRIMSON some months ago gently chided certain wayward souls for their form of nocturnal amusement, it was not done in a spirit of polite laughter at their quaint ways. The communication in this morning's CRIMSON indicates that window-breaking has not ceased. It might be the muckers, but it is not. The Lampoon is justifiably angry at being several times the victim of criminally thoughtless childishness. In an adult community window-smashers are jailed: the fact that this outrage has gone on spasmodically for over a year reflects no credit on the maturity of the College community...
...author of this article, as he suggests, goes in search of humor with a hundred horse-power telescope and a couple of Stetson bloodhounds it is not surprising that he fails in the attempt. Still, such hunting is a quaint conceit...
Many interesting characters, among them picturesque guides, are to be met with in the Tyrol. The inn-keepers, the peasants, stray students climbing mountains and sending their songs out across the valleys, all these are quaint and interesting to the stranger...