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...considers them decorative. A goat tied securely in front of each entrance would be effective. Students might be requested to deposit their burnt matches and half-smoked cigarettes in the fill across the Charles where the Business School will one day stand. An exchange department might be established where second-hand cigarettes could be ransomed by the inch, one inch of Melachrino equals a Sweet Caporal for instance, and similarly for matches. The collections of this bureau could be used by the Chemistry Department in experimenting for a new cattle-food, fuel, or building material. Oh, there are numberless ways...
There, they beheld anthologies in oils, signed by Fry. A tree from Watteau, a sash from Cezanne, a tilted corner from Guy Pene Du Bois?second-hand oddments tumbled from the artistic property-trunk that is Mr. Fry's memory. Brave among them was a portrait of Lytton Strachey. His beard was dank, red, hedged, jowl and cheek; clammy were his hands; unkissed, unblessed, looked this great author. Students, painters, gazed upon him, went away muttering about the Fire, the Frying...
...engage in politics. In my opinion, it is far better for a young man to manifest interest in his local problems and affairs than to start off with definite opinions and set ideas concerning the League of Nations and such international matters about which his information must necessarily be second-hand...
...risk of any of the surrounding buildings being burned. Why couldn't this space and that in front of Gore Hall be set aside for use." A nominal fee could be charged to cover any necessary expense. The University has begun to save students money on the purchase of second-hand furniture. Why shouldn't it do what it can to help meet this situation...
...final day, Woodrow Wilson's name was conjured with in Chapin Hall. Prof. Sidney Bradshaw Fay, of Smith College, said he has second-hand but reliable information that Woodrow Wilson died content that the League was gaining ground even without...