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...wrote without supporting it on anything at all. . . . He refused to have a shade fixed on the lamp that dazzled him." He became so completely absorbed in his writing that he once worked three days at a stretch. Once he sallied out to the Louvre to refresh his memory about a picture, did not realize until he got there that it was midnight. Proust was sorry to die because he wanted three more years in which to revise his book; he was glad dying took him a long time because he could take notes on what it was like, work...
...reply to Mr. Kramer's first charge allow me to refresh his memory regarding the resolution which demanded the release of Miss Berkman. In the first place it was not drawn up by myself, but was proposed from the floor. As chairman of the meeting I referred it for a vote. An objection was raised that because of the polyglot nature of the group it would be misrepresentative to let the Liberal Club speak through this vote, whatever it might be. The chairman accepted this meeting and the resolution was rephrased to read, "At a meeting called by the Harvard...
Education, in the last analysis, is largely a matter of carbohydrates. In recognition of this principle it has been suggested that the University establish some sort of a cafeteria, where weary denizens of the House Plan can refresh the jaded spirit without being involved in fruitless exercise. Already such an institution flourishes on the other bank of the Charles, catering to the isolated appetites of the Business School, and there is no reason to believe that an undergraduate is in any way a less valiant trencherman. If the University could run an eating place of this type, open, perhaps, from...
...this sombre tone, and in one the moor itself assumes a vigorous personality, becomes a definite character. Today Mr. Hersey will talk in Emerson 211 at 2 o'clock upon the Hardy Country. He has taken many new pictures during the last summer which will enlighten the provincial and refresh the memory of the cosmopolite. Mr. Hersey has the great gift of combining the country of which he talks with the characters about which the authors have written. The result is that Tess lives her tragic life before you, and you pause with Mr. Hersey to watch the straggler...
...Jefferson's ''Monticello" near Charlottesville, Va. One room of "Monticello," maintained by the Jefferson Foundation, is to be designated "Freedom of the Press Room." Sponsors of the idea expressed the hope that newspapermen from all the land would make annual "pious" pilgrimages to the home "to refresh our spirit in the fountain of freedom...