Word: seene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that tomorrow we shall have forgotten how to read. . . . In London they are dancing round the Walpole. . . . In Calcutta the black sweep is wandering with crumbs in his eyes, touching the untouchable, and eating the uneatable. . . . It is all being washed up towards a madness never before seen. The heretics themselves are appalled: are building themselves Arks from the flotsam of the imagination, and hanging their viscera out for sails; they are trying to escape, choosing what is frugal rather than countenance the ferment here, where life bubbles with the effervescent rhapsodic idiocy of soda from the siphon...
...First Story of the Whale" is the title of the first production of Harvard's own Lewis Carroll, but more are going to follow, such as "Herbert the Worm" and "Fitnia and Whee." Incidentally, Fitnia and Whee are two creatures, never seen, and they just can't be described...
...Death that Shakespeare had in mind when he wrote of "sound and fury, signifying nothing." For the play is a dark forest of conflicting themes, can be variously regarded as a study in revolutionary disillusionment, an attack on revolutionary fanaticism, a defense of revolutionary intransigence. Danton can be seen as victim or traitor, Robespierre as scourge or hero, or both as merely instruments in a historical process. But Danton's Death is just as undramatic as it is indecisive. Fatalistic, Hamletesque Danton, bogged in procrastination and boredom, shouts back at Robespierre but never fights back. Everybody shouts, nobody fights...
...interest in the subject. Approaching the same problem from a different point of view, there are faculty members whose chapel talks are brilliant; Professors Mather, Munn and Hopper are in this category. Because of the supposed necessity for giving time to their less capable colleagues, these men are seldom seen, and the influence they might have in the popularization of chapel is correspondingly weak. But regardless of Faculty etiquette this type, and this type only, should be invited...
...fray article a certain Boston correspondent mentioned the fact that the Harvard-Virginia foot-ball game would be the same old "Grant took Richmond" story. The orange-clad Cavaliers resented this sort of hospitality, and the result was that the Varsity football team went through the roughest, toughest battle seen on Soldiers Field this year, winning...