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...give a moderate alarm." Business interests in the East are demanding release from the heavy tax burdens imposed by the present government, the cry of the West-especially the farmers is "Down with the House of Wilson," and even in the South, the solid South, people are restless, even riotous, under the oppressive economic conditions...
Spreads, confetti, band stands, reunions, outings, all are ready to burst forth as riotous adjuncts to the day's fun. Rumor has it that the Ivy Orator is in record-breaking form, and, while rehearsing his effusion on lonely golf-courses, far from the ear of mortal man, has even himself been rocked by unholy glee. The Glee Club, too, is reported to be in fighting trim, and straining at the leash for the evening's operations on the moonlit steps of Widener. Spreads will be spread thick in every nook and cranny of the Yard, and many will...
Spain has been misconceived by our ignorant tradition as much as any other country in the world. For us it has always been the land of riotous dance, gay color, tumultuous music. But in fact its hills are desolate, its color gray, the dress of its people largely black. That austerity that is only hinted at in the saddest parts of Brittany, is in Spain magnified to the dignity of a persistent vision, brooding in the colorless sky, dispelled, or rather, transformed, only for a moment in the heat of noon, intense, akin to the early Gothic. It is strain...
...treasured as few family possessions are today, and when Gammer Gurton lost hers--the only one she possessed--the misfortune took on the importance of a family calamity. How it went and where it went and the disaster that accompanied its going and the search for it, affords a riotous comedy that keeps the audience in a constant state of excitement and good humor...
...Senior parade around the Yard starts this morning at 7 o'clock and at 7.35 o'clock the class will leave with the First Corps Cadets Band for Paddock's Island where they will spend the day in riotous revelry. This annual affair is called the Senior Picnic and it should be a grand success as the Freshman class contributed so loyally to further...