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...trials will be held in Sever Hall and in the choir-room of the chapel over a period of four days, extending from October 29 through November 1. At the conclusion of these trials, the membership, which now numbers 223, will be substantially...
...very often has the College got steamed up quite so much about the outcome of a mere football game. This week, however, you can hear it in the dining hall, on the steps of Sever and even in front of the Library, where tradition has always kept the conversation much more on the academic side. The burning issue of the hour is whether Sir John can whip the Purple Knight. After that, according to the dining hall quarterbacks, everything will be certain one way or the other. They say that if Harvard beats Holy Cross it is going through...
...budding trees and songs and mountains and summits are shut outside. There is no life here. There can never be life save for that antique brown dress, the natural and invariable garment of this particular formation of earth, which in the twilight combines to evolve a thing majestic without severity, impressive without showiness, emphatic in its admonitions, grand in its god-like simplicity. Here is an ancient permanence that even the sea cannot claim. For the sea changes, the fields change, the heavens, the rivers, the mountains, the villages, and the people all change, yet Egdon remains. ... Egdon Health. Indestructible...
...Parliamentary Government," Professor Friederich, Sever...
...Literary Discussion," Bernard De Voto, Sever...