Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...recent years the Pudding spring theatricals have depended for their success primarily on the music and dancing, the humor being left mainly to the inspiration of individual performers. This, in view of the Pudding's traditions, is unfortunate; but it is fair to say that the Pudding theatricals have as a rule contained quite as much comedy as the average modern comic opera. This year's performance would fall distinctly below even this level of humor were it not for G. P. Gardner's remarkable take-off of a noted dancer's "dance of the five senses." This travesty...
Spring rowing is not a favorite sport this year. That is to say, those who enjoy spring rowing per se are standing in groups of five to seven--awaiting the arrival of the man who doesn't care. There seems to be nothing much in the pleasures of mere physical exercise. But rowing would become popular if the men knew that the winning crew were to be given their oars or some silver cups. As it is, the present condition of class rowing is disheartening. The blame is upon the men who pretend an interest in class crews...
...Hiram Mitchell's Dream," by T. S. R., is a well-told story of presentiment and panic. Hiram's dialect needs mending: the man who says "Them things goes" does not say "It's only a dream," but rather "It ain't only a dream" or "It ain't nothin' but a dream...
...reply to the communication printed in another column we wish to say that, although those in charge of the Library protest that the facilities for required reading in the larger courses are adequate, we are advised from authoritative sources that this is not the case. Although the Library may not have consciously changed its policy with regard to the purchase of extra copies of books, it has been noticeable for a year or more that the supply of books for new courses has not been kept up to the demand. It is true that the Library has eight copies...
...report analyzes the financial condition of Cambridge, and although it does not recommend any legislation, it goes so far as to say that a college can not go on taking acres of land from the tax list without placing a burden upon the municipality; that the places in which such burden will be first apparent are those of small area which are thickly settled, and that there are beginning to be indications that the point has been very nearly reached where it may be confidently said that Cambridge is burdened by the exemption of the property of Harvard University...